“My father was haunted. He was bad at conjuring small talk, he watched very little TV, because once Conscious, every commercial, every program must be strip-mined for its deeper meaning, until it lays bare its role in this sinister American plot.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Source: The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir (2008), p. 54.

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