Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Ta-Nehisi Coates


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in Baltimore, The United States
September 30, 1975

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. A MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellow, Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story "The Case for Reparations." He lives in New York with his wife and son. ...more

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The Man Who Freed Me From Cant

I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most. Memory is tricky, and a work can assert its influences over my thinking long after I’ve forgotten its particular details, or even its title. Moreover, people who set as their job the task of judging what others do, and why, are not always reliable when turning the lens upon themselves. And then there’s the fact that any list

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Between the World and Me

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Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates  (?)
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“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates

“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“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, Between the World and Me

Polls

What book would you like to read for our April 2023 Group Read? The theme is Habitat.

Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Classics, Childrens, Adventure
 
  26 votes 25.2%

Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
Historical Fiction, Africa
 
  20 votes 19.4%

The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fiction, Historical Fiction
 
  13 votes 12.6%

Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
Dystopia, Science Fiction
 
  10 votes 9.7%

Once There Were Wolves, by Charlotte McConaghy
Contemporary, Mystery
 
  9 votes 8.7%

The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi
Science Fiction, Humour
 
  7 votes 6.8%

Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts
Chick Lit, Romance
 
  6 votes 5.8%

 
  4 votes 3.9%

The High House, by Jessie Greengrass
Dystopia, Science Fiction
 
  4 votes 3.9%

 
  4 votes 3.9%

103 total votes
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