Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Believe
• Political
• Past
• Racism

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • You
  • Vote
  • Citizen

• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Know
  • Environment

• I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Like
  • Hurts
  • Botox

• I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Business
  • Want
  • Israel

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Copy

• These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Power
  • Leader

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Bad
  • Achieve
  • Tough

• My most joy that I have is dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Joy
  • Dancing
  • Most

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Perfect
  • Purpose
  • Film

• For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Look
  • Appearance

• Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Me
  • Talk
  • Conspiracy

• It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Kids

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Never

• There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Great
  • Real
  • Help

• I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Act

• In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of creating new and better products. I believe that at whatever level of work, cashier at a supermarket, janitor at an airport, aide in a cubicle, the addition of a playful attitude makes the job better and the work more enjoyable. A cashier or janitor who smiles and is friendly gets a better response than a surly one.

  

  David Elkind
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Stories

• We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Past