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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.

I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.

I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.