Choose any two of the following quotes to analyze. Explain what the quote might mean and why you think it is important or significant.
"The Dream is the enemy of all art, courageous thinking, and honest writing" (Coates 50).
"I wanted to learn to write, which was ultimately, still, as my mother had taught me, a confrontation with my own innocence, my own rationalizations" (Coates 51).
"I know now that she was to me--the first glimpse of a space-bridge, a wormhole, a galactic portal off this bound and blind planet" (Coates 58).
"For this woman, enslavement is not a parable. It is damnation. It is the never-ending night…Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free" (Coates 70).
"Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you" (Coates 71).
"I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth" (Coates 78).
"For the crime of destroying the body of Prince Jones, I did not believe in forgiveness" (Coates 79).
"I always thought I was destined to go back home after college--but not simply because I loved home but because I could not imagine much else for myself. And that stunted imagination is something I owe to my chains. And yet some of us really do see more" (Coates 85).
"They were utterly fearless. I did not understand it until I looked out on the street" (Coates 89).
"And I had never imagined that such life could exist in so much variety. It was everyone's particular Mecca, packed into one singular city" (Coates 93).
"The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are" (Coates 99).
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