Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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PeopleForwardBlackYouLookBorn

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

Jim Sensenbrenner

CornerAroundApocalypse

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Jill Lepore

LifeFamilyHomeChildrenDieHelp

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

John Boyle O'Reilly

GoodBestValueWorthSeeingBoxing

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

Robert Stigwood

ComplicatedAnythingBeatlesVery

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

Robert Fisk

DeathWarHumanityYouLookSay

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

Jay Mohr

SportsMindEveryoneComeLikes

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

ThinkNiceNowTwoRememberingMove

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

Drew Barrymore

MorningServiceCoolDoorHotelPig

Nike is Nike. Adidas is Adidas. I've played in their circuits and stuff like that, but now it's a business. You don't want just product. You're not a kid anymore. You're really trying to get bank. That's about it.

Deandre Ayton

BusinessTryingYouNowWantKid

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

Brendan Fraser

WarThinkSearchInternetYouPlace

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

Bobby Moore

WinYouLoseGoalGamesNever

It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.

Anthony Fauci

PeoplePotentialYouWithoutSpread

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