“The point of this language of 'intention' and 'personal responsibility' is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. 'Good intention' is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
This book just floored me. I cannot convey to you how exquisite Coates' writing is; it's
beautiful, that's almost indubitable, but it's also unflinching and raw in a way that I've never read before.
Honestly, I just want to quote this book in its entirety because every single one of its lines was brimming with pathos and absolute verbal precision. It's a short book, but it is nothing if not a force of its own. I listened to it on audiobook while walking to class, and
there were some passages that just left me thinking a single, emphatic SHIT.
Lines that cut me to my very core, left me ruminating in sheer awe of what I'd just read. Needless to say,
Between the World and Me was an experience. Eye-opening, yes, but also humbling, intimate, unabashed.
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