Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.
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The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
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The force of the idea was such that I drew the car to the side of the road and stopped and, for some reason, laughed. It was a loud laugh, unsteady, and sounded, even to my own ears, slightly maniacal. Thinking back now, I realise it was less a laugh than the birth-cry of my dark and twin brother Benjamin Black.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
