Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Islam means peace.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
