Amiri Baraka Quotes

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

Amiri Baraka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

John Guare

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If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

John McEnroe

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I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Tracy Morgan

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I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I asked my father if he could start me in a football team. He took me to a team called Rupel Boom, who were playing in the fourth division in Belgium, and I stayed there for four years.

Romelu Lukaku

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I think comedians see themselves as people among people.

Michael Showalter

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Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

Dean Norris

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The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

Chris Christie

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I used to be able to pick out the UFC fans when I was in the airport. Now, it could be anybody.

Chuck Liddell

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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.

Anthony Albanese

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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Winston Churchill

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