
They are going to kill us, so I shall speak as my dead self, which is my best self.
Quoted by TaNehisi Coates

Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
Quoted by TaNehisi Coates

Whenever a woman smiled his way, she'd already begun dividing her life into trimesters.
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In a country authored and sustained by criminal irresponsibility.
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In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.
Quoted by TaNehisi Coates