Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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In 2001, I did some research and identified four characteristics that successful companies share. One, they aspire to be leaders in their businesses. Two, they have global potential. Three, they are innovative. Four, they display a ruthless focus on financial returns.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I think we all have different ways with coming to terms with celebrity if you're raised within it. Everyone goes through it differently, and there's no one right answer.
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The plan is to keep on putting out records until someone shows up and tells us to stop.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
