Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
-
We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
-
My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
-
I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
-
We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
-
I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
-
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
-
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
-
I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
-
Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
-
I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
-
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
-
I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
-
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
-
Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
-
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
-
I think anybody who says they don't care about being liked is lying. I care if my dog waves its tail when I come home. But you're not going to make everybody happy.
-
I'm a professional wrestler at heart, and I miss it.
-
Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.
-
We become who we hang out with.
-
How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?
-
I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
