I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
Worse than madness. Sanity.
As long as there's light we're brave enough
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
Are we savages or what?
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always makes me watch it all the time. I've spent hours and hours not just on the sea but just watching wav...
I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found...
You'll get back to where you came from.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015)
Sucks to your ass-mar!
Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
We're not savages. We're English.
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.