Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
-
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
-
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
-
There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
-
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
-
After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
-
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
-
I'm very open-minded.
-
If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
-
Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
-
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
-
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
-
I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
-
I read on the Internet that I was dead.
-
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
-
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
-
If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
-
As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
-
Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness
-
To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
-
Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career.
-
Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
-
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
