Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Control

• Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You
  • Percent
  • Invisible

• Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Beginning
  • Attitude
  • Losing

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Pretty
  • Space
  • Walk

• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Done
  • Serious

• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Up
  • Free
  • Football

• That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sympathy
  • Without
  • Funeral

• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Right Person

• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Time
  • School
  • Old

• My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.

  

  Bob Monkhouse
  • Father

• One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Color

• Injecting CO2 into an underground reservoir would certainly change the local environment and thus affect the organisms that live there. Some will thrive, and others will suffer. While we should minimize such impacts, they cannot be avoided completely. The same happens when one plows a field, builds a house or a road, or waters a lawn.

  

  Klaus Lackner
  • Live
  • House
  • Environment

• Some people, when they do someone a favor, are always looking for a chance to call it in. And some aren't, but they're still aware of it-still regard it as a debt. But others don't even do that. They're like a vine that produces grapes without looking for anything in return. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • People

• Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Movies
  • Sorry