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Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Civil Rights Presentation Movement

I'm an instinctual actor. I don't really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I'm having trouble with it, I go to sleep and I dream about it because I'm super internal with the way I work.

Work Sleep Dream Trouble Go Way

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Me Lesson Sure Quite Taught

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

Life Business Step Someone Back Own

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

Good Evil Doing Enough Us Shall

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

Think You Born Blood Circumstances

God and the devil are inherent in each of us. It's our choice to make: you can take the road to good, you can take the road to bad. Well, we have a choice.

Ronnie James Dio

Good God Road Devil You Choice

Everyone knows someone struggling in some kind of way. You are a role model to so many people, even if you don't realize it. Take someone under your wing. Show them the right way to do things.

People Someone You Role Model Kind

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

Marriage Commitment Society Believe

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!

Age Dance I Can Said Now Yes

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

Family Girl Vision Loved Holidays

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Money People Worry Easy You Bold

I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

School Investment Old Out Anything

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