Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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KingPeopleControlYouSayWant

There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.

Jim Piddock

FamilyNatureTreeBeginningEnd

I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

Jim Crace

HeartSelfKnowFictionSinking

We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

Robert J. Sawyer

WantUnderstandQuestBiggerRole

Life doesn't end at 30.

Jeanne Moreau

LifeEnd

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.

Robert Fitzgerald

GratefulThinkAlwaysEveryoneBeen

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

Rufus Wainwright

LifePeopleMeEndMy LifeNever

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Mathieu Kassovitz

MoneyHatePoliceSocietyHoodFilm

Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same.

Mitchell Reiss

ThinkBetterSituationSaidNeed

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Clifford D. Simak

FaithBelieveFaceFindDeadMust

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

Brad Henry

FaithInnovationChildrenCreative

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Arianna Huffington

WisdomMediaMouthRightSeeFilter

We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.

Anne-Marie Duff

GirlThoughtBoyNamesOutUp

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