3 Quotes & Sayings By Fred Moten

Fred Moten is a New York-based writer and thinker whose writing on race and urbanism has been featured in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on CNN and MSNBC. He is the author of the upcoming book, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study from Du Bois to Today.

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The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know? Fred Moten
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...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure... Fred Moten