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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In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.
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If must also be remembered that, unless men are left to their own resources, they do not know what is or what is not possible for them. If Government half a century ago had provided us all with dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators to-day to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
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I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.
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I've heard about productions where it still happens: yellow face, taping up the eyes. It's hard to talk about it in a constructive way.
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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.
