"If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so……" — Ta-Nehisi Coates
"If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge."
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14 Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates has 14 quotes on this site.
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
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I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one…
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go…
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that…
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Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present…
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an…
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of…
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a…
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a…
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More Crossing Quotes
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
— Douglas Adams
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
— Felix Baumgartner
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
— Buffalo Bill
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the…
— Luther Burbank
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
— Sherman Alexie
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Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the…
— Mark Helprin
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Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an…
— Bill Maher
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I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I…
— George Carlin
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