Chief Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates Download Open image “My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'” — Ta-Nehisi Coates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chief College Identity Mind Psychology Writer Writing
My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's not something… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron Copy Share Image
College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me. — William Landay Copy Share Image
“I never went to college — I don’t believe in college for writers. The thing is very dangerous. I believe too many professors are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity. — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“Of the four fundamentals, discovering each writer’s identity is the one I hold most dear, and the one, as teachers, we need to shout… — Patty McGee Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for… — Anne Lamott 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
It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things. — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and… — Tommy Bond Copy Share Image
I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for… — Richard Dean Anderson Copy Share Image
One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
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