Latest Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes from Interviews

• No sé cómo salvar esa contradicción, pero sentí que Barack Obama era sincero. No me pareció una línea. Me pareció que volvía a lo que tenía en los huesos y eso es, ya sabes, optimismo y una profunda creencia en las instituciones americanas y en el pueblo americano.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Bridges, People, Optimism

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• Fue una semana después de que Donald Trump hubiera ganado. Y al principio todavía era optimista. Él sentía que las cosas estarían bien en última instancia. Y tengo que decirte, esta es el área donde, ya sabes, veo, ya sabes, cierto grado de contradicción. El presidente dijo en campaña que Donald Trump no estaba cualificado para dirigir un 7-Eleven.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Running, Believe, Optimistic

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Voting, Demographics, Percent

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  African American, Way, Flip

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• Creo que el presidente [Barack Obama] adoptó parte de ese mismo lenguaje, pero lo llevó a la Casa Blanca. Y creo que hay una diferencia crucial entre ser, ya sabes, Joe Schmo en el barrio y ser el jefe, ya sabes, del gobierno que, ya sabes, en muchos sentidos es en gran parte responsable de esas condiciones en primer lugar.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Pensamiento, Gobierno, Blanco

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Mom, Phrases, Use

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible. You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there's some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Morning, Drinking, Home

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Community, African American, Patronizing

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• [Ganar la Casa Blanca fue un logro], pero como afroamericano, [Barack Obama], creo que el simbolismo está en cómo se comportó. El simbolismo estaba en - y esto suena muy, muy pequeño, pero en realidad es grande para los afroamericanos - el simbolismo no estaba en ser una vergüenza, sino en ser una figura de la que la gente estaba realmente orgullosa.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Winning, Thinking, Symbolism

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• [Creció en Hawai] eso le dio [Barack Obama] una especie de optimismo, una capacidad de ver las cosas, ya sabes, y francamente, una capacidad de confiar, ya sabes, en sus compatriotas, ya sabes, compatriotas blancos de una manera que yo, por ejemplo, ya sabes, y la gran mayoría de la gente negra que conozco nunca realmente podría.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  White, People, Optimism

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• [Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Crow, Hawaii, Segregation

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Mother, Two, White

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Reading, Thinking, White

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• [Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Strong, Unique, Succeed

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Jobs, African American, President

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn't mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it's not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Mistake, Mean, White

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• Creo que el Presidente [Barack] Obama subestimó profundamente la fuerza de la supremacía blanca en la vida estadounidense.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Thinking, White, President

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Thinking, My Own

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Responsibility, People, Black

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think that's reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  País, Pensar, Largo

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, People, African American

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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