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-Nehisi Coates 1 Share Now -
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected. - Ta-Nehisi Coates 2 Share Now -
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that. - Ta-Nehisi Coates 3 Share Now -
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-Nehisi Coates 4 Share Now -
We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system. - Ta-Nehisi Coates 5 Share Now -
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-Nehisi Coates 6 Share Now -
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else. - Ta-Nehisi Coates 7 Share Now -
You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere. - Ta-Nehisi Coates 8 Share Now -
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people. - Ta-Nehisi Coates 9 Share Now -
When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything. - Ta-Nehisi Coates 10 Share Now -
