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The Message

Book by Ta-Nehisi Coates · 7 quotes · Reading, Age, Animorphs

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“Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming, all that jumping around. At present, he was working his way, deliciously, through a book on Mendel, the father of genetics. A man who might not have spend seven years watching peas, if he'd had the internet.”

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“Even Tatum’s story spoke volumes by not speaking much at all, for it nodded to the shame one might feel or the paradox of a game that valorizes violence and then is horrified by its consequences. … What I felt then was that the story of Darryl Stingley broke some invisible law of justice, one that reigned in all of my cartoons. I knew that football was violent — it was the violence that backlit Tony Dorsett’s escape act. But violence was the antagonist in a story with a happy ending. It could never win, could it? (p.10)”

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“It may seem strange that people who have already obtained a position of power through violence, invest so much time into justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings, whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises a wall between themselves, and those they seek to throttle and rob.”

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