Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The Facts Of My Native World, I Came To Understand That My Country Was A Galaxy, And This Galaxy Stretched From The Pandemonium Of West Baltimore To The Happy Hunting Grounds Of Mr. Belvedere. I Obsessed Over The Distance Between That Other Sector Of Space And My Own. I Knew That My Portion Of The American Galaxy, Where Bodies Were Enslaved By A Tenacious Gravity, Was Black And That The Other, Liberated Portion Was Not. I Knew That Some Inscrutable Energy Preserved The Breach. I Felt, But Did Not Yet Understand, The Relation Between That Other World And Me. And I Felt In This A Cosmic Injustice, A Profound Cruelty, Which Infused An Abiding, Irrepressible Desire To Unshackle My Body And Achieve The Velocity Of Escape.

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