Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

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• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation