618 Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.

Donald Trump did not appear by magic.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.

Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.