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Amiri Baraka Quotes

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: October 7, 1934 - January 9, 2014

Topics

Wait Think Name You Place Will

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.

Freedom Peace People Ideas Become

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

Effort Know Taxation Avoiding Goes

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

Challenge Me Feel Important Want

With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.

Detail Reading Process Drawing Look

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Vision Great Depression Competition

I work out every body part twice a week, and that is what helps me stay in shape.

Work Me Week Body Out Shape

Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour.

Time Kiss Down Sit Conversations

When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself.

Cornelia Parker

Work Mother Myself Be Different You

Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.

Chris Stapleton

Great Guitar Musicians Playing

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

Good People Me Opinion Think Feel

My mom used to be concerned 'cause I would never go outside. And when I'd go outside, I'd have friends, but I just was always in the house listening to music, practicing DJing all the time. Then my uncle got a keyboard, drum machine, so I'd just be in the house at 12, 13, just, like, messing up his presets. And my mom was like, 'My son is strange.'

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Music Son Time Mom Listening Uncle

Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account - and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the elites.

Winnie Byanyima

Challenge Space Society Decisions

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