Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Jim Rohn

PathLightShineDawnYouMeet

I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.

Jenny Mollen

RelationshipGameParentTalkingYou

One of my favorite activities when I was a teenager was going riding on the back of a horse with a friend of mine. Because we were rather high up, I could see into peoples' lighted windows as we trotted past. Questions would rise up inside: Who lives there? Are they happy? What are they doing? Any dogs or cats in sight?

Ann Turner

FriendCatsPastHappyHorseDoing

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Michael Gove

EducationChildrenAchievementLabor

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Rita Dove

TimeShadowCuriousThinkSound

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.

Ron Silver

ThoughtEasyRealBe RealGoing

I was 15 when my family moved to Jidda from Britain in 1982. Living in Saudi Arabia was such a shock to my system that I like to say I was traumatized into feminism.

Mona Eltahawy

FamilySayLivingFeminismSystem

Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

Douglas Brinkley

DreamsFreedomBestReligionPeople

Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.

Anthony McCarten

LiveCountryInsideLeaveOwnEven

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

Anne Lamott

BirthdayPeopleFeelGoExtra Mile

With control of the House, the Senate, and the White House, Republicans could have used their unified control of government to... balance the budget!

Seth Moulton

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Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.

Shane Smith

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