Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va!
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After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
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I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
