Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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I think that 99 percent of the time, I'm jocular, lighthearted.

Andrew Breitbart

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I went to my first school dance on the set of 'Spider-Man.' The funny thing is, it wasn't actually real. I didn't choose my dress or my date or anything about it. I just showed up for work.

Angourie Rice

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I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.

Stephen Hawking

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I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

Steven Wright

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There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

Trey Gowdy

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Is anything worth it?

Mary Boykin Chesnut

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Miguel de Cervantes

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We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

Minnie Pearl

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If you try to live as well as you can, then hopefully your face will reflect that. But it's unfair that we put so much pressure on women to look good and then give them so much stick when they go under the knife to achieve this.

Diana Quick

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Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Christopher Hitchens

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I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.

Cheryl Cole

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