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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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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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.
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If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.
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In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.
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People understand that Trump is a born leader.
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Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
