Amiri Baraka Quotes

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

Amiri Baraka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleMeYouKnowKindNatural

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

John Eldredge

WomanWorldHurtDangerousWantShe

The structural or biogenetic relations of plant products as deduced from the recognizable architectural components of the molecules have been consistent guides in my investigations.

Robert Robinson

PlantProductsConsistentBeen

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

Maureen O'Hara

UpBalletTheaterGrewDanced

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

Anna Kendrick

HumilityAmbitionActorAlways

There have been great champions in every generation.

Andy Roddick

GreatGenerationChampionsBeen

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Amy Winehouse

LifeDayI AmMemoryHusbandKnow

We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

Tre Cool

YouKnowCandyShellSurprisedThin

I still viewed myself as a reviewer when I was on radio. Was it appropriate for me? I think the answer is it's only inappropriate if I allowed it to affect my film reviewing. I don't think you will find any studio that said, 'Yeah, he went easy on us because he was shopping a script.'

Rod Lurie

MyselfMeShoppingThinkYouFind

I don't close the door to anything.

Dimitri Payet

DoorAnythingClose

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

Colin Powell

TimeFunHave FunYouRunLeave

I've been performing my whole life.

Shania Twain

LifeWholeBeenPerforming

My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to ban mixed marriages. Imagine that. Marriages between people of different races - now common and accepted - were illegal in many states up until the late Sixties.

Marjorie Liu

PeopleMomAmericanLateWhiteNow

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