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Jill Scott Quotes

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

Jill Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1972

Topics

Poetry Reading You Conversation Go

Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.

Joe Scarborough

Past Sleep Hard Unfortunately Gotten

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

Joe Biden

Training American Soil Forces Saudi

Music has always been my passion. It was not a hobby or something I can take out of my life.

Jessica Sanchez

Life Music Passion My Life Hobby

Our forces will not be on the sidelines.

John Abizaid

Will Sidelines Forces Our

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

John Barton

Poetry Inquiry Poem Exciting Agent

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

John Curtin

Football War Victory You I Can Say

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Faith Great Souls Individuals Base

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

John Wooden

Inspirational Today Day Yesterday

In our family, the men have always stood at the head, true patriarchs that take the lead, teach, and live their lives as examples... Women have a significant role as helpers to our husbands and co-counsels in the parental equation.

Alveda King

Family Women Live Men Teach True

My parents were of the generation that lived through the Second World War, but I grew up listening to my mother recounting her dad's tales about his terrible experiences during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and later on the Western Front.

Tony Bradman

Mother War Parents Listening World

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

Ron Paul

Live Death Man Free Liberty Serious

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

Conor Oberst

Freedom Creative People Think You