Ta-Nehisi Coates
Born: 01-01-1975
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an acclaimed American author and journalist known for his insightful exploration of African American culture and history. He gained prominence with his book "Between the World and Me," which won the National Book Award. Coates has also written for The Atlantic and penned the Black Panther comic series for Marvel. His work often addresses themes of race, identity, and social justice.
Book summaries for books written by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quotes
I am consoled only by the fact that I am not alone in this sad condition.
But there is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship’s, smooths and contains the rocker. It’s an inside kind—wrapped tight like skin.
I had never felt that way before, never considered that I could feel that way.
The truth was a room. The room was locked. It was my job to find the key.
But to see that there is a world beyond what we can touch or measure, that is what hope is.
It is the haunt of history, this curse of blackness.
Some of us came from places where your mind is never free to wander.
Sometimes a person can do something that changes the world. Yes, that’s a grand thing, a grand thing.
You got to make a way out of no way.
The master was the one who could not see his own chains.
She was herself, she had her own thoughts, her own voice, her own desires.
I wanted to be a person, someone who was respected and seen.