Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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A free public broadcast license is a privilege.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
