Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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BeautifulCulturePeopleMeLook

I've always been dabbling in suits, but like a lot of people in the neighborhoods I grew up in, I had my snapback; I had my v-neck. I still got them in the closet. I got my J's, my Forces; it was standard.

Jidenna

PeopleSuitsAlwaysUpBeenForces

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

Maurice Gibb

KingBluesKnowBigDigFan

I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.

Ani DiFranco

ChangeMarriageCommunityEyesSmart

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

Mike Figgis

SlowCameraYouAudienceTension

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

Modest Mussorgsky

ArtEndHumanityMeansAddressing

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Milan Kundera

ArtEndMatterHumanSensible

I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, 2001, but they're too young for that. Maybe when they're twenty. Maybe by then, even though it's been only a short subway ride away for years now, I'll have the nerve to see the 9-11 memorial for the first time.

Douglas Brunt

MorningChildrenTimeRideThought

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Anne Sullivan

ChildrenSympathyMoreGuidanceFar

I want to remind women of color out there to stand your ground, and don't ever be afraid to speak up.

Pramila Jayapal

WomenColorSpeakStandWantOut

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

Susan B. Anthony

WomenGovernmentBlessingsLiberty

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

Leslie Caron

ChangeYourselfMindControlBetter

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.

Leroy Hood

MedicineBiologyWillThemeDominant

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