Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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PeopleExpectationsBlackWhiteKnow

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

Joe Biden

StyleWorldBecomeEmotionSmooth

Your wife doesn't want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.

John Benjamin Hickey

WifeWantHotMistressViceYour

Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.

Jeff Bridges

GoodPeopleMental IllnessGunsSure

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

Stella Young

WorkI AmCircumstancesRightAble

I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.

Luke Combs

LifeGoodGreatSingingGuitarBeen

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

Lucretia Mott

EducationLearningWomenMenSchool

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

Chris Jordan

ArtCulturePoliticsWarPoetry

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

Chris Bell

CompetitionProblemTryingOutBeat

To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.

Christopher Guest

RelationshipTogetherMeDoingUp

I've always been about, how do I get my ideas out to the most people?

Boots Riley

PeopleIdeasAlwaysOutGetBeen

In my period at Chelsea, I was sometimes the one who switched sides because we were playing with two left-footed guys on the wings with myself and Damian Duff.

Arjen Robben

MyselfWingsSometimesSidesTwo

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Plato

GrowthPeopleGrowDieHelpYou

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