In the last pages of Between the World and Me, Coates’ phenomenology of the body unveils the body as a spirited, expressive, and imaginative source of dark energy matter from which the Mecca was created (149). It is important to mention that the book concludes with a conversation about the spirted, expressive, and imaginative reality of the body above the hopefulness of metaphysical transformation. Understanding the black body and black death via the lens of traditional phenomenology, Coates’ phenomenology of the body, and corporeality of the body, helps one make sense of his last words to his son with its lasting advice and self-titled hopefulness. Coates tells his son,
