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.
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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.
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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.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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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.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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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.
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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.
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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
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I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.
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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.
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I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.
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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.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.
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On-camera stuff just hit. I decided to do it to supplement my voice-over career, but I ended up falling in love with it, and it actually hit a lot harder than my voice-over career.
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When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
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The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said. For a long time it has been clear that colored persons must be senators.
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In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.
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Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.
