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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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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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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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence.
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I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.
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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
