Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
