
Ta-Nehisi Coates Explores Oppression in 'The Message'
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The Timelessness of Language and Literature
This chapter explores the speaker's love for reading, instilled by their mother, and their admiration for Shakespeare. Through a passage from Macbeth, it connects the themes of human experience in Shakespeare's work to modern cultural expressions like hip-hop.
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