Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American writer, journalist, and educator. Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about cultural, social and political issues, particularly as they regard African-Americans. Coates has worked for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, and Time. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, O, and other publications. In 2008 he published a memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth30 September 1975
CountryUnited States of America
I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.