Quotes by : Ta-Nehisi Coates

Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans. The black diaspora....

Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic....

The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through....

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.....

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do....

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

i think one has to even abandon the phrase "ally" and understand that you are not helping someone in....

What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.

I do not believe we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves. And still I....