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Amiri Baraka Quotes

I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'

Amiri Baraka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Time I Am People American Know

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.

Jimmy Walker

Stars Sky Night Small Feel You

My face and body have been a tool for my career, and I'm very conscious of that aspect and try and keep it the best I can.

Jerry Hall

Best Face Body Career I Can Try

The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.

John Gregory Dunne

Sports Depend Up Self-Image Gas

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

Jenifer Lewis

Name What If Top Houston Her Sell

It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

John le Carre

Good Time Struggle Writing World

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

Martin O'Malley

Growth Opportunity House Earth Order

I wanted to be the Six Million Dollar Man as a child. I learned how to raise each eyebrow independently, just like Lee Majors.

Jason Winston George

Man Child Dollar Eyebrow Million

The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.

Doug Baldwin

Perspective Tragedy Believing Matters

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Bob Marley

Door You Know Open Closed Another

I love collaborating because I come from the world of being in bands.

Brian Reitzell

Love World Being Because Come Bands

Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them.

William Shawcross

Life Man Effort Earth Poor Greatest

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

Peggy Noonan

Politics Moving Election Earth Going