Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

Jim Garrison

GoodPersonalityManYourselfPeople

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

Jessie Mueller

CharacterTimeSchoolMeThinkLook

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

Merlin Olsen

HurtMoreThanShouldPlayedTimes

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Stephenie Meyer

MyselfMeFreeYouActingPerson

We are seeing historic, record-breaking sales across all types of our accounts in North America for 'The Lost Symbol.'

Sonny Mehta

AmericaSeeingLostSalesOurNorth

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

Tommy Chong

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Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Robert Blair

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One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

Joseph Prince

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The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

Jonathan Kozol

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I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

Cory Booker

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The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

Boz Scaggs

ThinkBetterShortBecomeSinger

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

Bobby Flay

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