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Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 30, 1975

Topics

Youth World Black Naked Elements

You need to make certain decisions to expand your market.

Decisions You Need Expand Market

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

Blessing Myself Think Artist More

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

Hell Bad Back Nervous Been Very

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Knowledge Electrical Telephone Radio

The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.

Yourself Cricket You Talk Ask Him

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

Life Simple Silence People Me Mom

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

Others Characters Ways Often

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

Jason Alexander

You Meet Will More Reluctant Ever

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Women God Flowers World Lovely Most

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Corrie Ten Boom

Future Memories Past Key

Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.

Brandon Stanton

Social Media People Media Place

I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

Happiness Thankful Responsibility You

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