Ta-Nehisi Coates

"Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered."

- Ta-Nehisi 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."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

"I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

"I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates