Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.

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• Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Comedian

• In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Great
  • Family

• Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Relationship

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Used
  • Prosperity
  • Instrument

• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Sports
  • Aggressive
  • Leads

• If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

  

  Xenophon
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Overcome

• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mom
  • Name

• The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.

  

  Kaki King
  • Done
  • Know
  • Guitar

• I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Fiction
  • Novel
  • Careful

• Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

  

  Sam Houston
  • May
  • Learn
  • Texas

• I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • House
  • Colors
  • Soothing

• If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • Saying

• I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Ideas

• Over the years, I've tried to express myself through my feet, which have made everything simpler for me ever since I was a child.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Myself
  • Child
  • Feet

• Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

  

  J Allard
  • People
  • Big
  • Floor

• I work mostly in the studio; as I mentioned several times, the leaves are burgeoning and change so rapidly that I have been unable to prepare a single sketch. I am making little watercolors and pastels, I think they will come out all right; in the studio I am preparing five or six canvases, I work on one after another, I am getting used to working that way.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Single

• Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race,Bringing little of gold or fameTo show how well he has played the game;But glad in his heart that his own rejoiceTo see him come and to hear his voice.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Game

• When I used to teach yoga in Bangalore and Mumbai, I noticed many clients struggling to cope with their weight. During some days, they would come in with plans to work out harder than usual because of events they'd have to attend later that week. The insecurity of appearance is something everyone goes through... even I.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Work
  • Yoga
  • Insecurity

• I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Strong
  • Reading
  • Christmas

• I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Fighter
  • France
  • Russia

• It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Good
  • Children
  • May

• This country was formed for the white not for the black man. And looking upon African slavery from the same stand-point, as held by those noble framers of our Constitution, I for one, have ever considered it, one of the greatest blessings that God ever bestowed upon a favored nation.

  

  John Wilkes
  • Black
  • Blessings
  • Considered

• Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates