Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.
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Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.
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The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.
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I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.
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The noble simplicity of sentiment in McCain’s tweets is a world removed from Trump’s gaudy and boastful displays. And McCain’s demonstration of character and courage is a far more reliable guide to American greatness than the pronouncements of a president who speaks of it nonstop and embodies it not at all.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
