Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
Natasha Leggero -
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
Eddie Trunk -
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
LaToya Jackson -
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
Samantha Power -
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
Usain Bolt -
The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
Cam
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
Octavia Spencer -
I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
Aaron Neville -
When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
Ursula Andress -
To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.
Naftali Bennett -
The less I talk about being black, the better.
Idris Elba
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
Harriet Harman -
I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
Lamar Alexander -
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
Samantha Power -
I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
Larry Bishop -
The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
Aaron Rodgers -
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
Dan Rather
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The true simple question of the present dispute is, whether the House of Lords and Court Influence shall predominate over the House of Commons, and annihilate its existence, or whether the House of Commons...shall have power to....regulate the prerogative of the Crown, which was ever ready to seize upon the freedom of the Electors of this country.
Charles James Fox -
One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
Meghan O'Rourke -
Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility.
Barack Obama -
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
William Blake -
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
Ta-Nehisi Coates