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Amiri Baraka Quotes

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

God Over Air West Air Conditioning

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

Work Face Looks Go Lying Way

Your true friends will tell you what they believe is true.

Believe Friends You True Will Tell

My favorite animal on the Galapagos is the Galapagos Marine Iguana. The first rule of iguana-dom is that iguanas hate the water, yet somehow, these poor iguanas landed there and had to figure it out.

Michael Bastian

Water Hate Animal Poor First Out

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

Family Good Time Having A Good Time

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Live People Action Doing I Can Know

I always thought I was so fit.

Thought Always Fit

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself.

Myself Believe More Starting Get

It's not like you reach a point with your acting where you're like, 'I'm great! That's it!' You're constantly having to go,'That sucked. I wanna do that better.'

Great Better Reach You Acting Point

I've done a lot of research about the Civil Rights movement, and I'm fascinated with how difficult it would have been for a black man to show feelings toward a white woman in that time period.

Time Woman Man Research Black White

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

Music Me Important Okay Concert

If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.

Best Cold Striving Sometimes Being

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

William Pollard

Learning Decision People Information

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