Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates Download Open image ““Among the Conscious, a man is only worth his latest reading.”” — Ta-Nehisi Coates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.” — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“But there are some people, nevertheless—and I am one of them—who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“There seems to me a thousand occasions when my soul knows more than it can tell, and a has a spirit of it's own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.” — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“To Trump whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The focus on one sector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition. Indeed, there is a kind… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I drove away, as always, thinking of you. I do not believe that we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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