Between the World and Me (One World Essentials)

by 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.

was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance.

The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs.