“ The older poets were Ethelbert Miller, Kenneth Carroll, Brian Gilmore. It is important that I tell you their names, that you know that I have never achieved anything alone. Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ All the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me... James Baldwin
“ I don’t so much hope that any reader “agrees” with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are. Ta-Nehisi Coates
