Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.

Jim Inhofe

DriveYouFindNeedOklahomaSome

You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.

Jill Scott

GodHumbleYouBe HumbleDealing

To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our foreign policy platform is very important.

Jill Stein

PathCitizenshipImmigrantsImportant

If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.

Jerome Powell

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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You can't just say jazz is dead.

Statik Selektah

YouSayJazzDeadJust

Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work.

Doug E. Fresh

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Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Chris Ware

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If you can jump, you can jump.

Brooke Sweat

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Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative.

Winona LaDuke

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People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Pope Francis

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