Amiri Baraka Quotes

Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies which will merely be America being itself rather than its unconvincing promise.

Amiri Baraka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PowerImpossibleAmericaWillBeing

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

Jimmy Smits

LifeLiveYouGlassBubbleAfraid

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

Jerry Saltz

WorkArtMeaningStrangeMoreClock

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

Michael Douglas

WingsKindActorAlwaysThings

I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.

Tom Steyer

ScienceTrustThinkRiskOverDays

You can't go east and west at the same time.

Jean Charest

TimeYouGoSameWestEast

Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.

Bret Stephens

GoodIdeasYouSayExecutionPretty

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

Brett Favre

ChangeYouI CanPromiseThan

If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available.

Brett Kavanaugh

ProcessPresidentSomethingAvailable

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

Willie Geist

MyselfMeThinkSureQuiteAnybody

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Susan Sontag

PeopleRealityCameraEveryoneOwn

My beloved brethren, why do you not rise together with me against the malignants? Why do you not stand up with me to oppose those who work iniquity? Do you not know how that God will scatter the bones of those who strive to oppress Him? They shall be confounded, because the Lord hath despised them.

Thomas Becket

WorkGodTogetherMeStand UpStand

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

Thomas Frank

LifePeopleAmericanPoliticalWrong

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