Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

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• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

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• I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

  

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• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

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• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

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• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

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• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

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• I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

  

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• I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.

  

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• It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

  

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• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

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• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

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• Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

  

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• I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

  

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• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

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• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

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• California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

  

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• Ever since I've given up dancing, every physiotherapist or Pilates teacher has said you have to keep moving. If I don't, I'll have a hundred times more injuries because you get weak areas on your body.

  

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• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

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• I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. So again, it's like sculpture. You just start taking away, you add a nose here, you cut off, like, the side of the cheek over here in the crease, and you have a face. But it really reveals to you what it means to be over time, and if you have enough time.

  

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• Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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