Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Being evil is easy.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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I've never really socialized; I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.
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The Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and Pistons are there today as sure as they were when what was good for General Motors was good for the country. Would you rather have a basketball team, or would you rather be Detroit?
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The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.
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I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.
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It's a very different show because of the elements that we're putting in. There's so many different styles of comedy, but Mr. Show was unique to Bob and David - two of the most brilliant performers and writers there are. Their show was based on them. Our show is a bit more broad. We have a cast of 7, we have guests. We can be slightly more topical.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
