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Amiri Baraka Quotes

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.

Amiri Baraka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Black American America White Country

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

Joe Carnahan

Man War World Think Kind Way

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

Mattie Stepanek

Live Sad Things Happen Need Happen

When I was a kid, dealing with trying to discover myself, I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't have any Internet and didn't have any friends. You felt very alone and very frightened.

Rob Halford

Alone Myself Internet Friends You

People already have tons of regular TV. They don't need more of that.

Roy Price

People More Need TV Regular Tons

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

Rufus Wainwright

Think More Elitist I Think Could

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Michael Schudson

Power Values Repetition More Obvious

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

Josh Radnor

Life Moment My Life Personal Write

I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.

Dionne Warwick

Beautiful Money Clothes Earned Lot

The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.

Diane von Furstenberg

Life Work Hard Work Relationship You

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

Bruce Feiler

Parenting Book Write Out Set

Sometimes all you're looking for is an apology.

Ashleigh Murray

Looking You Sometimes Apology

I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

Tilda Swinton

Woods Not Knowing Strange Knowing