I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTag: right-on
We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed for us.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesRacism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTag: empathy hate hatred prejudice skepticism racism empathy-psychology contemporary-racism empathy-diversity
The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhenever a woman smiled his way, she'd already begun dividing her life into trimesters.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesOur art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church of "everything is fucked up, so throw up your hands." This is art as anesthesia.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTag: art cynicism modern-art
What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhat I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through--that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTag: love young-love
Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were trapped in dead-end suburbs. They hated high school. Their parents did not understand. They are seeking a better world. And when they realize that the world is wholly a problem, that the whole problem is in them, they make television for other people who are also running, who take voyage in search of a perfect world, then rage at the price of the ticket.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTag: art cynicism misfits modern-art running-away
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