Amiri Baraka Quotes

There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.

Amiri Baraka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FriendWillPraiseAnalysisEven

Most video games, you build up toward the big, bad boss. And it's just a bigger, more powerful version of what you've been fighting all along in the game.

Jim Lee

BossVideo GamesGameFightingYou

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

Jenny Slate

LoveTalkPubertyLikeHitUntil

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

John Oates

GreatPeopleNewSometimesBring

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

Ruth Rendell

WorldThinkPlacePleasant

In my singles run, I would have to say my ladder match with Dolph Ziggler in Cleveland for the Intercontinental Title was probably a career highlight for me. If throwing that pretty boy through a ladder isn't fun, I don't know what is.

Luke Harper

FunMeCareerKnowRunLadder

I hope that the image of gene therapy is changing. It seems to be.

Liz Parrish

HopeTherapyImageSeemsChanging

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

Joss Stone

I CanWriteSongsRelateThoseThem

'Super Troopers' benefited from the old way of watching films, the way we watched at Colgate, when you went to someone's house, looked at their DVD collection, and then just picked one.

Jay Chandrasekhar

SomeoneYouHouseWayOldWatching

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeGenerationCryFirstWhose

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

Dirk Nowitzki

FamilyHeartWinSmallEasyWant

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

Philipp Meyer

JobThoughtQuitWillNeverOut

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

Nina Arianda

CharacterDoubtLongYouNervousUp

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