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.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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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.
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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.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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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.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?
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O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.
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"Immigrant" has become a dirty word. It is not a bad word. It's not a curse or a swear word. It's not a dirty word and it's nothing to be ashamed about. I am proud to be a second generation immigrant. I am proud of my heritage. We are all immigrants and we need to start owning the concept.
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This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
