Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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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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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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I don't need to do only one thing, you know? Even in the entertainment industry, nobody's 'just a singer.'
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.
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A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
