Amiri Baraka Quotes

I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

Amiri Baraka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.

Joe Gilgun

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The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

John Cornyn

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Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.

Travis Bradberry

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The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

Tom Clancy

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I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

Russell Smith

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Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

Michael Nielsen

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Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change.

Luis Gutierrez

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It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.

Jason Blum

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I'm ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?

Deontay Wilder

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New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.

Deepak Chopra

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The duet with Frank Sinatra, 'What Now My Love,' is one of my favorites.

Aretha Franklin

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I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.

Susumu Tonegawa

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