Rohit Gupta

“The human mind can only conceive of so much tragedy at once—and when lost lives spiral into the hundreds, then thousands, and then millions, when murder becomes a wide, seemingly unending mass, we lose our ability to see its victims as anything more than an abstract, almost theoretical, collection of lives. In this way, a second crime is perpetrated: Human beings are reduced to a gruel of misery. At”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“What I wanted was to be Mary for a moment, to understand how she came to believe that it was worth risking her job over a book.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“The statues and pageantry can fool you. They look like symbols of wars long settled, fought on behalf of men long dead. But their Redemption is not about honoring a past. It’s about killing a future.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“guess it’s worth pointing out the obvious—that the very governors and politicians who loudly exalt the values of free speech are among the most aggressive prosecutors of “divisive concepts.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message