Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

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• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Possible

• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Important
  • Challenge

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Family
  • Interesting

• One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Business
  • Best
  • New

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
  • Early

• Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Face

• There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Looking Back

• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Up
  • Great
  • Control

• I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Man
  • Lies
  • Summer

• If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Black
  • Find
  • Anything

• I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Time
  • Why
  • True

• After everything I've been through, I've realized I can do anything I put my mind to. And I want to do it all.

  

  Tyler Posey
  • Mind

• There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Life
  • Women
  • Father

• Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness.

  

  Jan Hus
  • Up
  • Church

• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

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