Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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And that's the way it is.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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If I get to spoil myself, I'm going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
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You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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My hair's naturally dirty-dishwater light brown. Ugly.
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.
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Rapping was a joke, but the music helped me break out of my shell.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit.
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But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.
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Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
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I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.'
