Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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A novel is not a rant.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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We always trend set.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
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I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.
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There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
