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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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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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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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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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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When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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When you become a parent, that's a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it's going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life.
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I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
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Life is full of uncertainties. Future investment earnings and interest and inflation rates are not known to anybody. However, I can guarantee you one thing.. those who put an investment program in place will have a lot more money when they come to retire than those who never get around to it.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
