Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.
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I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen.
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We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.
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It's always great when you just pound the rock, impose your will, and that is going to break the spirit of the defense if you can keep running it and they can't stop you.
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Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
