Ahmad

“My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“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

“In those days I imagined racism as a tumor that could be isolated and removed from the body of America, not as a pervasive system both native and essential to that body. From that perspective, it seemed possible that the success of one man really could alter history, or even end it.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy