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Book: The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Quotes of Book: The Beautiful Struggle: A
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  1. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Beautiful Struggle: A

    We know how we will die-with cousins in double murder suicides, in wars that are mere theory to you, convalescing in hospitals, slowly choked out by angina and cholesterol. We are the walking lowest rung, and all that stands between us and beast, between us and the local zoo, is respect, the respect you take as natural as sugar and shit. We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed for us. I
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    I did not know then that this is what life is-just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
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    Where others saw America in lovely columns, marvels of engineering, and refined democrats, Dad saw only masks concealing the heralds of woe.
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  4. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Beautiful Struggle: A

    It is by choice not chance…that we choose to advance, The Marshall Team; We can achieve…We will achieve.
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  5. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Beautiful Struggle: A

    She knew that I had no idea how close I was, would always be, to the edge, how easily boys like me were erased in absurd, impractical ways. One minute we were tossing snowballs at taxis, firing up in front the 7-Eleven, speeding down side streets and the next we're surrounded by unholstered guns, a false move away from going down. I would always be a false move away. I would always have the dagger at my throat.
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    No matter what the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail."
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  7. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ The Beautiful Struggle: A

    He went back to Baldwin, who posed the great paradox that would haunt him to the end: Who among us would integrate into a burning house?
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    What I came to understand was the great democracy in this, and that what mattered to these boys was not so much what you came to the street with but how you carried what you were given.
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    No matter what the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.
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