Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Community, African American, Patronizing

  Source: www.npr.org

• Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Mean, Opportunity, People

• When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Opportunity, People, Giving

• Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Self, Community, Ironic

  "In Defense of a Loaded Word" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 2013.

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