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Quotes About Coates

If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
First, the defenders of the Confederate cause were, almost without exception, Democrats. Coates cites many malefactors from Senator Jefferson Davis to Senator James Henry Hammond to Georgia Governor Joseph Brown. Yet while identifying these men as southerners and Confederates, Coates omits to identify them as Democrats.
~ Dinesh D'Souza