Rohit Gupta

“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

“You cannot act upon what you cannot see.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“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

“So I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message