Ta-Nehisi Coates
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893 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I'm here.
I'm here.
I lived here.
I'm not going to abandon it just because it got taken.
But I do think one thing that...
would be more useful is when we use language that, as you and I just did, takes five minutes to figure out what it's actually trying to say, we probably have a problem.
That's not a rule for the benefit of white people, actually.
That's actually my rule as a writer.
Like, as a writer, when I write things and, like, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
I got it, but it took me... Then I have to rewrite.
You know what I mean?
Because...
So much of our job actually is communication.
I think there were a number of us during that period who felt that it was not our job to explain things to other people.
And I will say that, yes, for a lot of people, it was not your job to explain to other people.
If you're a writer, if you're a politician, I'm sorry, it is.
It is.
That is part of your job.
It is part of, part of my job is to, and I, you know, I had some conflicts about this myself, but yes, part of my job is to explain people, things to white people.
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