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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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Think of the children

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Feb 9 2009, 10:00 AM ET Comment

As you can imagine, I can't muster much outrage about A-Rod and roids. There are drugs that would likely make me a more efficient writer. I don't take them because I'm concerned about my health, and because I worry about what they'd do to the shreds of creativity I cling to. I'm always worried about getting busted, now that I've got a family. But I also don't get paid millions to do what I do. If I were, I have no idea what I'd do. That's another world

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