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emgrace444 's review for:
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
i believe it’s best for all white people to stop speaking over black individuals & instead simply listen & become educated within conversations of this context, so i’ve decided to just highlight some of my favorite quotes throughout the book:
“why were only our heroes nonviolent? … i judged them against the country i knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery, against the countries whose armies fanned out across the world to extend their dominion.”
“i am black, and have been plundered and have lost my body. but perhaps i too had the capacity for plunder, maybe i would take another human’s body to confirm myself in a community.”
“indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. & you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful— the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements. & this is not reducible to just you— the women around you must be responsible for their bodies in a way that you never will know.”
“i knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.”
“i didn't always have things, but i had people— i always had people.”
“today, when 8 percent of the world's prisoners are black men, our bodies have refinanced the dream of being white. black life is cheap, but in america black bodies are a natural resource of incomparable value.”
“why were only our heroes nonviolent? … i judged them against the country i knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery, against the countries whose armies fanned out across the world to extend their dominion.”
“i am black, and have been plundered and have lost my body. but perhaps i too had the capacity for plunder, maybe i would take another human’s body to confirm myself in a community.”
“indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. & you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful— the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements. & this is not reducible to just you— the women around you must be responsible for their bodies in a way that you never will know.”
“i knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.”
“i didn't always have things, but i had people— i always had people.”
“today, when 8 percent of the world's prisoners are black men, our bodies have refinanced the dream of being white. black life is cheap, but in america black bodies are a natural resource of incomparable value.”