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The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it


Robert Coates Holliday

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TA-NEHISI COATES [whiteness] has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. The new people were s...
TA-NEHISI COATES When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don&...
TA-NEHISI COATES My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
TA-NEHISI COATES I was peace pipes and treaties. My style was to talk and duck. It was an animal tactic, playing dead...
TA-NEHISI COATES The black people in these films seemed to love the worst things in life—love the dogs that rent th...
TA-NEHISI COATES I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded scie...
TA-NEHISI COATES You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine...
TA-NEHISI COATES My mother and father were always pushing me away from secondhand answers—even the answers they the...
TA-NEHISI COATES You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales th...
TA-NEHISI COATES Greatness is achieving something unimaginable and doing that feat with ease
LEE S COATES I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record ...
TA-NEHISI COATES I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
TA-NEHISI COATES You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
TA-NEHISI COATES I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this te...
TA-NEHISI COATES The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of e...
TA-NEHISI COATES The American real-estate industry believed segregation to be a moral principle. As late as 1950, the...
TA-NEHISI COATES [Clyde Ross] was stationed in California. He found that he could go into stores without being bother...
TA-NEHISI COATES From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legiti...
TA-NEHISI COATES In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.
TA-NEHISI COATES You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious a...
TA-NEHISI COATES I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon ...
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