Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
-
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
-
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
-
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
-
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
-
I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
-
I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
-
It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
-
I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
-
We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
-
I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
-
You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
-
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
-
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
-
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
-
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
-
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
-
I love Channing Tatum!
-
I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.
-
I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.
-
There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.
-
I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.
-
We're an unselfish team. When you move the ball, you get the best shot. The ball is getting into the right people's hands at the right time.
-
I had no expectations of white people at all.
