Amiri Baraka Quotes

My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

Amiri Baraka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CultureInfluenceThinkingThought

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Jock Sturges

GoodMyselfSkillFarConcerned

Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.

Megan Rapinoe

AmericanLookGayKnowFlagProtect

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

Stephen Hawking

MyselfMeCareFeelingDownWrite

I'm pretty sure that every player who's ever played for me doesn't hate me. Now, we'd have to do a survey, but I've coached a lot of guys, and I'm pretty sure there's one or two that don't hate me. I don't know that any liked me. But I'm pretty sure there's one or two who don't hate me.

Stan Van Gundy

HateMeKnowNowTwoSurvey

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Michael Shannon

OpinionWallStreetEntertainment

When I'm getting ready, I'll listen to '80s music on Spotify just to wake me up and put me in the mood. I like that it's cheesy.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

MusicMeReadyMoodListenUp

Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

Juan Felipe Herrera

YouStopThreeBellOverLine

My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.

Anushka Sharma

GoodGodJourneyGraceMy Journey

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

Todd Phillips

MusicThinkToolsSometimesKind

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Tom Brady

LifeWorkGodMy LifeGymOut

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

Thomas Brooks

TruthGreatPrevailShall

I love Stevie Wonder for his sense of rapture in the music. He can swing through a zappy tune, lift your heart, or drift into a sad ballad with consummate ease.

Tim Pigott-Smith

LoveMusicHeartSadWonderSwing

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