Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
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If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
