Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We Spurned The Holidays Marketed By The People Who Wanted To Be White. We Would Not Stand For Their Anthems. We Would Not Kneel Before Their God. And So I Had No Sense That Any Just God Was On My Side. "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth" Meant Nothing To Me. The Meek Were Battered In West Baltimore, Stomped Out At Walbrook Junction, Bashed Up On Park Heights, And Raped In The Showers Of The City Jail. My Understanding Of The Universe Was Physical, And Its Moral Arc Bent Toward Chaos Then Concluded In A Box. That

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes: I Could Not Retreat, As Did So Many, Into The Church And Its Mysteries. My Parents Rejected All Dogmas. We

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