Ta-Nehisi Coates citáty

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates je americký spisovatel, scenárista a novinář. Poprvé proslul jako národní zpravodaj časopisu a publicistického portálu The Atlantic, kde pokrýval kulturní, společenská a politická témata. Dále psal pro The Village Voice, Washington City Paper a TIME.

Napsal tři knihy v žánru literatury faktu: The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me a We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, přičemž za knihu Between the World and Me získal v roce 2015 National Book Award. Kniha byla v roce 2020 adaptována do televizního speciálu HBO, který čerpal z divadelní adaptace souboru divadla Apollo z roku 2018. V roce 2019 napsal svůj první román s názvem The Water Dancer. Současně psal scénáře pro komiksové série Marvel Comics Black Panther a Captain America. Wikipedia  

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“There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.”

"The Case for Reparations: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Reckoning with U.S. Slavery & Institutional Racism" https://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/29/the_case_for_reparations_ta_nehisi (May 29, 2014) Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org
Kontext: Mr. [Clyde] Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to policies around redlining and deciding, you know, who deserved the loans and who doesn’t. There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.

“Plunder has matured into habit and addiction; the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos, the mass rape of private prisons, then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates kniha Between the World and Me

Zdroj: Between the World and Me (2015), p. 146.
Kontext: I had heard such predictions all my life from Malcolm and all his posthumous followers who hollered that the Dreamers must reap what they sow. I saw the same prediction in the words of Marcus Garvey who promised to return in a whirlwind of vengeful ancestors, an army of Middle Passage undead. No. I left The Mecca knowing that this was all too pat, knowing that should the Dreamers reap what they had sown, we would reap it right with them. Plunder has matured into habit and addiction; the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos, the mass rape of private prisons, then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline.

“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates kniha Between the World and Me

Zdroj: Between the World and Me (2015), p. 9.
Kontext: Resent the people trying to entrap your body and it can be destroyed.... The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions. And destruction is merely the superlative form of a dominion whose prerogatives include friskings, detainings, beatings, and humiliations. All of this is common to black people. And all of this is old for black people. No one is held responsible.

“I recoil at the idea of someone reading my book because they really should read a black author or two. I don't want to be an icebreaker at your corporation's Kwanzaa gathering.”

The Damned Mob of Scribbling Women http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/the-damned-mob-of-scribbling-women/239882/ (Jun 3, 2011) The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com
Kontext: I'm looking to avoid a subtly demeaning subtext which holds that reading, say, is something you should do--like flossing or taxes or laundry. I don't want to speak for women writers, but I recoil at the idea of someone reading my book because they really should read a black author or two. I don't want to be an icebreaker at your corporation's Kwanzaa gathering.

“Something more awful than all our African ancestors is rising with the seas.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates kniha Between the World and Me

Zdroj: Between the World and Me (2015), p. 150.
Kontext: Once, the Dream’s parameters were caged by technology and by the limits of horsepower and wind. But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent. And this revolution has freed the Dreamers to plunder not just the bodies of humans but the body of the Earth itself. The Earth is not our creation. It has no respect for us. It has no use for us. And its vengeance is not the fire in the cities but the fire in the sky. Something more fierce than Marcus Garvey is riding on the whirlwind. Something more awful than all our African ancestors is rising with the seas. The two phenomena are known to each other. It was the cotton that passed through our chained hands that inaugurated this age. It is the flight from us that sent them sprawling into the subdivided woods. And the methods of transport through these new subdivisions, across the sprawl, is the automobile, the noose around the neck of the earth, and ultimately, the Dreamers themselves.

“We thought the corner was cool, but more than that we deeply believed that we could do no better, that this tiny parcel was all we deserved in this world of sin.”

Zdroj: The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir (2008), p. 192.
Kontext: I built not by parental edict, not under threat, but because of my own native yearning. This was a giant step toward seeing more. Across the country our elders were battling the shades that shrank our minds and abbreviated our world. We thought the corner was cool, but more than that we deeply believed that we could do no better, that this tiny parcel was all we deserved in this world of sin.

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