Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
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I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
