Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains.

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

When we understand [that] American democracy and white supremacy are inextricably linked, we can see how tortuous our efforts have been to accommodate the value gap.

America is yours [Whites] today because of crime and violence.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

Segregation is a disease of white people, not of colored people.

He shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

The scars of racism still remain deeply imbedded in America.

Well, I had to do it becasue somebody had to do something becasue, you know, black people are killing white people every day on teh streets, and they rape white women, 100 white women a day.

This country does belong to white people. America was, until this last generation, a white country.

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.

I tell you what: I bet Jerry Jones would not trade places with a 75-year black man in Chicago. I bet Joel Klatt would not trade places with a 30-year old black guy from Chicago or Watts. I bet he wouldn't do that. You know why? It's great to know that I'm white and a male in America.

In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.

I wanted people to begin dialogue about racism, about colorism. I wanted people to really become honest about our beliefs, about racism and how it exists in America today.

America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.

I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.