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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Later, hiding in the latrine from the black boys, I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.
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Headlines from the avian flu situation continue to weigh on overall consumer sentiment towards chicken in China.
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All of my fans know I love to travel and learn about new cultures... We'll absorb all of the history and I'll personally have a once in a lifetime opportunity to perform my new music while we cruise the Sea of Galilee together. This is going to be an amazing experience that I get to share with true fans. This is going to be an unforgettable trip!
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There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.
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It is beautiful to be what you are.
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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.
