Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

Jimmy Kimmel

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'Acceptance' is always a good word.

Max Greenfield

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I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

Matthew Desmond

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Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

Amy Grant

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We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If we be true to ourselves, the glory of other nations, in comparison to ours, shall resemble but a tale from the days of chivalry.

John Tyler

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Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Alveda King

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I got started as a producer first, but really, I feel my beats had more life than anyone could rap on them.

Smokepurpp

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I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

Tom Stoppard

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I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

Jarvis Cocker

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Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Jordan Peterson

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When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

Chris Pratt

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I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.

Bret Stephens

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