Hailee

“The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“If you’re black, you were born in jail,” Malcolm said. And I felt the truth of this in the blocks I had to avoid, in the times of day when I must not be caught walking home from school, in my lack of control over my body.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“To yell “black-on-black crime” is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“All my life I’d heard people tell their black boys and black girls to “be twice as good,” which is to say “accept half as much.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me