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I don't so much hope that any reader -œagrees- with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.

I don’t so much hope that any reader -œagrees- with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.
– TaNehisi Coates

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  2. The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious. – TaNehisi Coates
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  4. You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. – TaNehisi Coates
  5. To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers. – TaNehisi Coates
  6. You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. – TaNehisi Coates
  7. My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own. – TaNehisi Coates
  8. There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. – TaNehisi Coates
  9. Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others… – TaNehisi Coates
  10. I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay. – TaNehisi Coates
  11. Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner. – TaNehisi Coates
  12. Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. – TaNehisi Coates
  13. I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger. – TaNehisi Coates
  14. Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you’d haunt me. – Helen Maryles Shankman
  15. Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
  16. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
  17. Don’t be fretting…about me marrying. Marrying’s a trouble and not marrying’s a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows. – LM Montgomery
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  19. I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for. – Christos Tsiolkas
  20. We are born with hope. We grow up with hope. We live with hope. We love with hope. We vanish from this world with eternal hope. – Debasish Mridha
  21. [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
  22. A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
  23. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  24. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  25. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
  26. From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble. – Mortimer J Adler
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  28. Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. – Bryant McGill
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  35. The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God. – Wess Stafford
  36. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
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  38. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false. – Criss Jami
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  40. I hope that when the characters in my novels dream beyond their current circumstance, it inspires the reader to do the same. – Kristine Scarrow

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