Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Good design should be honest.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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I love to write.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.
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Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.
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When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.
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The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
