Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
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People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.
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When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
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I write novels and other things.
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So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
