Famous TaNehisi Coates Quotes

  • I don’t so much hope that any reader -œagrees- with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are. – TaNehisi Coates

    I don’t so much hope that any reader -œagrees- with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.– TaNehisi Coates

  • I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger. – TaNehisi Coates

    I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.– TaNehisi Coates

  • Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. – TaNehisi Coates

    Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.– TaNehisi Coates

  • Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner. – TaNehisi Coates

    Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.– TaNehisi Coates

  • I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay. – TaNehisi Coates

    I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay.– TaNehisi Coates

  • Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others… – TaNehisi Coates

    Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others…– TaNehisi Coates

  • There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. – TaNehisi Coates

    There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.– TaNehisi Coates

  • My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own. – TaNehisi Coates

    My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.– TaNehisi Coates

  • You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. – TaNehisi Coates

    You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.– TaNehisi Coates

  • To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers. – TaNehisi Coates

    To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers.– TaNehisi Coates