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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• 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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• 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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• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

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• Enrique Muricano isn't afraid to try something new, to take risks, to possibly fail, and in turn, set himself apart.

  

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• In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

  

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• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

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• I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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