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| 536fe69 | Una volta i parametri del Sogno erano ingabbiati dalla tecnologia e dai limiti dell'uso dei cavalli e del vento. Ma i Sognatori hanno fatto grandi progressi, e l'utilizzo dell'acqua per l'elettricita, l'estrazione del carbone, la trasformazione del petrolio in cibo hanno reso possibile un'espansione del saccheggio senza precedenti. E questa rivoluzione ha reso capaci i Sognatori di massacrare non solo i corpi degli umani bensi il corpo dell.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 155d8bb | The birth of a better world is not ultimately up to you, though I know, each day, there are grown men and women who tell you otherwise. The world needs saving precisely because of the actions of these same men and women. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| b6a28e5 | I am not a cynic. I love you, I love the world and I love it more with every new inch I discover. But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. And you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful-the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quick.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3667302 | The two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black," said the great South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun. "And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals." And there it is--the right to break the black body as a meaning of their sacred equality. And that right has always given them meaning, has always meant that there was someone down in t.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 182f9bb | So I feared not just the violence of this world but the rules designed to protect you from it, the rules that would have you contort your body to address the block, and contort again to be taken seriously by colleagues, and contort again so as not to give the police a reason. all my life I'd heard people tell their black boys and girls to "be twice as good," which is to say, "accept half as much." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 2c0d2c6 | The Struggle is in your name, Samori - you were named for Samori Toure, who struggled against French colonizers for the right to his own black body. He died in captivity, but the profits of that struggle and others like it are ours, even when the object of our struggle, as is so often true, escapes our grasp. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 6eab192 | Remember your name. Remember that you and I are brothers, are the children of trans-Atlantic rape. Remember the broader consciousness that comes with that. Remember that this consciousness can never ultimately be racial; it must be cosmic | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e82e9a4 | All I know is, the violence rose from the fear like smoke from a fire, and I cannot say whether that violence, even administered in fear and love, sounded the alarm or choked us at the exit. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 097f7e0 | VIVE LE COMBAT DES JEUNES CONTRE LE CRIMES RACISTES! USA: TRAYVON MARTIN, 17 ANS ASSASSINE CAR NOIR ET LE RACISTE ACQUITE. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 5eb4402 | I would imagine Malcolm, his body bound in a cell, studying the books, trading his human eyes for the power of flight. And I too felt bound by my ignorance, by the questions that I had not yet understood to be more than just means, by my lack of understanding | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3770c62 | The streets were not my only problem. If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the schools and you gave up your body later. I suffered at the hands of both, | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| c6c5ba9 | He is a general at war with his own army. An exhorter of radical beliefs, shrinking from their obvious conclusions. It was so much easier in the lecture hall, the salon, the seminar. When theory need not be demonstrated in blood. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 2537886 | Can fearsome Ayo, who is herself a warrior, not understand their suffering? Can she not see what fire and inundation have done to the Wakadan heart?" "Tetu, I am a . I saw more suffering, more of the human heart, in my first five years than you will see in five lifetimes." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e7157d5 | When it came to her son, Dr. Jones's country did what it does best--it forgot him. The forgetting is habit, is yet another necessary component of the Dream. They have forgotten the scale of theft that enriched them in slavery; the terror that allowed them, for a century, to pilfer the vote; the segregationist policy that gave them their suburbs. They have forgotten, because to remember would tumble them out of the beautiful Dream and force .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| b4ed812 | I have missed seeing you like this, brother." "And how is that?" "At war." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d89bc8b | Nothing between us was ever planned--not even you. We were both 24 years old when you were born, the normal age for most Americans, but among the class we soon found ourselves, we ranked as teenage parents. With a whiff of fear, we were very often asked if we planned to marry. Marriage was presented to us as a shield against other women, other men, or the corrosive monotony of dirty socks and dishwashing. But your mother and I knew too many.. | parenting | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 4e47fbf | Il mondo nero cresceva davanti ai miei occhi, e per la prima volta capivo che quel mondo non era solo il negativo di quello della gente che si crede bianca. L'"America Bianca" e un'organizzazione schierata a difesa del suo potere esclusivo per dominare e controllare i nostri corpi. Talvolta si tratta di un potere esercitato in modo diretto (con il linciaggio), altre in modo piu insidioso (con la discriminazione). Ma in qualunque forma si ma.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| ee1f588 | my death would not be the fault of any human but the fault of some unfortunate but immutable fact of "race," imposed upon an innocent country by the inscrutable judgment of invisible gods." -- | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 67f086d | whatever we might make of this country's criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority. The abuses that have followed from these policies--the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects--are the product of democratic will. And so to challenge the police is to challenge the American people who send them into the ghettos armed with the same self-generated f.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 7f8a9ca | But all our phrasing--race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy--serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 8fef418 | Hmm... 'our' country? I have not spoken in this manner in some years. But Wakanda is my home. Wakanda is our home. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3ebf847 | Very few Americans will directly proclaim that they are in favor of black people being left to the streets. But a very large number of Americans will do all they can to preserve the Dream. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 6d755f7 | racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 6bec953 | Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own, whose range of feeling is as vast as your own; who prefers the way the light falls in one particular spot in the woods, who enjoys fishing where the water eddies in a nearby stream, who loves her mother in her own complicated way, thinks her sister talks too loud, has a favorite cousin, a favorite season, who excels at.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3f2754b | And this should not surprise us. The plunder of black life was drilled into this country in its infancy and reinforced across its history, so that plunder has become an heirloom, an intelligence, a sentience, a default setting to which, likely to the end of our days, we must invariably return. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 95fbed8 | Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?" Bellow quipped. Tolstoy was "white," and so Tolstoy "mattered," like everything else that was white "mattered." | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0272833 | the month could not pass without a series of films dedicated to the glories of being beaten on camera. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| b2817b0 | As slaves we were this country's first windfall, the down payment on its freedom. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 8f93063 | The changes have awarded me a rapture that comes only when you can no longer be lied to, when you have rejected the Dream. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| c0101d0 | And still I urge you to struggle. Struggle for the memory of your ancestors. Struggle for wisdom. Struggle for the warmth of The Mecca. Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, for your name. But do not struggle for the Dreamers. Hope for them. Pray for them, if you are so moved. But do not pin your struggle on their conversion. The Dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field for their Dream, the s.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3683e6c | The need to forgive the officer would not have moved me, because even then, in some inchoate form, I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth. At | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0c144b7 | In accepting both the chaos of history and the fact of my total end, I was freed to truly consider how I wished to live--specifically, how do I live free in this black body? | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 8b5867c | Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state. | 19th-century mississippi-history 1968 lynching american-history black-history us-history mississippi 20th-century | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| f5d45c4 | In the Dream they are Buck Rogers, Prince Aragorn, an entire race of Skywalkers. To awaken them is to reveal that they are an empire of humans and, like all empires of humans, are built on the destruction of the body. It is to stain their nobility, to make them vulnerable, fallible, breakable humans. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 5854bc5 | These new people are, like us, a modern invention. But unlike us, their new name has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. The new people were something else before they were white -- Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish -- and if all our national hopes have any fulfillment, then they will have to be something else again. Perhaps they will truly become American and create a nobler basis for their myths. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e806310 | The question is unanswerable, which is not to say futile. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 6f28151 | Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains--whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. You must struggle to truly remember this past in all its nuance, error, and humanity. You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 41449bc | He has lost best friend to treachery, a wife to allegiances... an uncle to betrayal, still more friends to sorcery... He kept up the regal mask. But he could not always do it. No one can. I remember my beloved... I remember him, weeping. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0fd0fa2 | An alliance with the haramu-ful has always been a perilous thing. Perilous for his mother and father. For his friends. For his wife. For his people. Perilous for you. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 1084439 | We are all so injured, daughter-- all of us. Even him-- perhaps especially him. This name-- haramu-fal-- was made to mock him. But perhaps it mocks us all. Perhaps it speaks to all of our losses. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 5d8bce2 | But perhaps the question is not whether you can stand with the king... but whether your king can stand with you. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| f5e25dc | And no one would be brought to account for this destruction, because my death would not be the fault of any human but the fault of some unfortunate but immutable fact of "race," imposed upon an innocent country by the inscrutable judgment of invisible gods. The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his work, because he was not a killer at all. He was a force.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| f43e174 | I should never have left you. I was caught between fealty to my world and fealty to my blood. I chose wrong. I was a king. I held the knife. I acted as a king should. But I did not act as family should. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| c1e303f | The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his work, because he was not a killer at all. He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world's physical laws. | violence racism america politics | Ta-Nehisi Coates |