Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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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.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.
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I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans.
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Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.
