I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism — Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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