Quotes by Nehisi Coates

"My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us. -Ta"

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"Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church. -Ta"

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"Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much. -Ta"

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"My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission. -Ta"

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