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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quotes About Fatherhood
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Grandmother
Growing
I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quotes About Fatherhood
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Something
Survival's
I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quotes About Fatherhood
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wanted
Schools
I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quotes About Fatherhood
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Marked
Shielded