Quoting Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World and Me, The Text Publishing Company, p. 8-9, 2015

there exists, all around us, an apparatus urging us to accept [our] innocence at face value and not to inquire too much. And it is so easy to look away, to live with the fruits of our history and to ignore the great evil done in all of our names. But you and I have never truly had that luxury. I think you know.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World and Me, The Text Publishing Company, p. 8-9, 2015

6:48pm on January 6, 2025 from Vancouver, Canada.


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