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Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1942

Topics

Impact Environment You Go Young Out

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

Robert Irwin

Time Art Someone Artist Understand

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code.

Michael Dirda

Parents Me Mom Doing Christmas Code

The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars; they don't go to the gay bars. Start your night at the Club Charles, and then you can meet people to go other places. The Charles has been Baltimore's favourite cool hipster bar forever.

John Waters

People Cool Night Start You Gay

I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal, or abandon their comrades.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Leadership Father Lie Wise Brave

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

Alone Best Within Marble Artists

I think I am kind of put on this Earth to speak of being between worlds in my films.

Mira Nair

I Am Speak Think Earth Kind Being

It never dawned on me that I was sexy. I always thought of myself as the goofy kid.

Luke James

Myself Me Thought Sexy Never Kid

Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.

Joshua Cohen

Challenge World Comfort Escape Visit

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

Josh Hartnett

Go Anything Progressive Modern West

I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.'

Douglas Adams

People Think Internet Feel Worth

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani

Beautiful Poetry First Fiction Essay

I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly and minimally.

Sharon Van Etten

Believe Strong Stand Enough Back