Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.
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'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
