Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

Jill Abramson

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It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

Matthew Perry

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I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.

Amy Sherald

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Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a Nobel laureate to a debut blogger. They all get PEN's attention.

John Ralston Saul

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There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed.

Michael Leunig

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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Javier Bardem

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Coloradans of all walks of life value the environment.

Jared Polis

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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

Jonathan Kozol

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I think we do have cyclic changes in weather, and I think that's been throughout the course of history.

Joni Ernst

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Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.

Don Shula

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Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

Johnny Winter

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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

Douglas Sirk

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