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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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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I have 14 nieces and nephews.
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The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.
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Do not hurry; do not rest.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
