Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.
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For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.
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I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
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The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.'
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
