Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

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 Black Girls To "be Twice As Good," Which Is To Say "accept Half As Much." These Words Would Be Spoken With A Veneer Of Religious Nobility, As Though They Evidenced Some Unspoken Quality, Some Undetected Courage, When In Fact All They Evidenced Was The Gun To Our Head And The Hand In Our Pocket. This Is How We Lose Our Softness. This Is How They Steal Our Right To Smile.

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