Quoting Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World and Me, The Text Publishing Company, p. 12, 2015

In accepting both the chaos of history and the fact of my total end, I was freed to truly consider how I wished to live—specifically, how do I live free in this black body? It is a profound question because America understands itself as God’s handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World and Me, The Text Publishing Company, p. 12, 2015

7:06pm on January 6, 2025 from Vancouver, Canada.


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