Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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BJP is the mothership of violence.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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Chicago is where the whole idea of community policing began. It remains the - the best and the most comprehensive approach we have in changing the everyday conditions that breed crime and violence - and then breed mistrust. We have more work to do. We need better training to live up to the values and the principles of community policing.
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Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
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Come on, get ’em out, police, please. Let's go! ... Nobody wants to hurt each other anymore.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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I hadn't fought enough for the injustice of the Apartheid.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
