Here's what you need to know: In America, the destruction of the black body is a tradition. - an inheritance. I would not like you to go to bed in a dream. I would like you to be a citizen of this beautiful and terrible world at the same time, a conscious citizen. I have decided not to hide anything from you.

"I wondered who would fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin's death. Without a doubt, it would be Ta-Nehisi Coates... A must-read." Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize for Literature.