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Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 30, 1975

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Fear Power Strong Enough White Up

For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.

Love People Think Dream Audience

I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord.

Me Influence Think Person Lord Most

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

Literature You Information Image Get

Every actor just wants good writing.

Good Writing Actor Good Writing Just

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

Life Eye Rest View Someone Feelings

I'm an FFH: a Formerly Fat Housewife.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

Merce Cunningham

Doing Grades Students Give Which

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

Water Care Golf Take Care You Need

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

Greatness Myths Michael Jackson Were

When we had our first son, four different people gave us the same present: a copy of Ezra Jack Keats' 'The Snowy Day.' A new child often inspires duplicate gifts - we were given a dozen mostly useless baby blankets, just one more thing to spit up on - but this one was different.

Son Day Child People Baby Present

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place.

Live People You Look Place Lived

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

Father Myself Memory Writing Book

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