Class Quote Wall pp. 15 - 30 by Anne Wolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh Add notes from your group's discussion in response to the quotes below. As you respond, consider these questions: What does this quote mean? What are some patterns your group sees in Coates’ themes and language? What effect do they have on the message he is trying to convey? What is their effect on the reader? How does this quote connect to current events or the real world, more generally? en-us 2021-02-11 16:50:26 UTC 2021-02-11 18:23:53 UTC hello@padlet.com “Fear ruled everything around me, and I knew, as all black people do, that this fear was connected to the Dream out there, to the unworried boys, to pie and pot roast, to the white fences and green lawns nightly beamed into our television sets.” awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193310939 2021-02-11 16:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193310939 “My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent towards chaos and concluded in a box.” awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193313319 2021-02-11 16:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193313319 “We could not get out. The ground we walked on was trip wired. The air we breathed was toxic. Water stunted our growth.” awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193315069 2021-02-11 16:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193315069 “I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog” awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193316378 2021-02-11 16:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193316378 “To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world . . . This nakedness is the correct and intended result of policy. . . ” awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193318825 2021-02-11 16:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193318825 "The violence rose from the fear like smoke from a fire, and I cannot say whether that violence, even administered in fear and love, sounded the alarm or choked us at the exit." awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193320848 2021-02-11 16:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193320848 “Against all evidence and odds they were the masters of their own lives, their own streets, their own bodies.” awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193323317 2021-02-11 16:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193323317 “It is hard to face this. But all our phrasing--race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy--serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth.” awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193324814 2021-02-11 16:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5uyng98a73024axh/wish/1193324814