A Conscious Citizen

"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."

(Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author of the bestselling books The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between The World And Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. His first novel, The Water Dancer, was released in September 2019. Ta-Nehisi is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He is also the current author of the Marvel comics The Black Panther and Captain America.)

These words from Coates are powerful.

It is so easy to “descend” into our dreams of the world…

but to be awake in this one, a “conscious citizen” of all that is terrible and beautiful here, is the greatest challenge and privilege.

Will you be awake with us?

Will you be a conscious citizen?