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Amiri Baraka Quotes

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Blues Jazz Race Old Always

I am such a sillybilly that I embarrass myself all the time.

Time Myself I Am Am Embarrass

I'm a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been.

Conservative Always Been Roman

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.

Michael Kinsley

Government You House Out Property

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.

Lisa Marie Presley

Good Father Me Princess Everyone

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

Voice Mouth Want Word Our Biggest

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.

Work Morning Football Step People

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

Life Me World My Life Meaning Place

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock

Man Pig Understand Never Sound Saw

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

Peter McWilliams

Home World Feel More I Feel Dumber

That's how we grew up - kinda like Pops would put his drums, his percussion and instruments into the car and we would just go to a facility in the Bay Area and he would say to us, 'You think we have it bad? There are people worse off than we are. Let's go give back to the kids.' And that's how we grew up.

Car People Think You Bad Back

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Nature Law Society Cruelty Out Get

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

Path Me Down Go Sometimes Out

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