Ishmael Reed Quotes

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

Ishmael Reed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1938

Topics

JobAmericanGoDoneCaliforniaGet

Everybody wants to play in Europe, but I'm happy here with Inter.

Mauro Icardi

HappyPlayEuropeHereEverybody

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Matthew Henry

GoodPracticeMayKeepUsPrayers

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

Steven Van Zandt

MusicPersonalityWorldRock And Roll

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

Steve Vai

PeopleYouI CanKnowPassionate

The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn't 'Son of Ann'... It comes from 'Canis' - as in 'canine' - as in 'dog!' My name - Rory McCann - means Rory Hound, Rory Wolfhound.

Rory McCann

DogSonMeNameTranslationJust

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

Mary Hunter Austin

GreatWordsFameNamesAboveClear

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

Michelle Trachtenberg

WorkHard WorkMorningDiscipline

I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

Josh Turner

MusicPassionAgeMeSingingEarly

I think for anything to be successful, your problems have to become different problems over time.

Jason Isbell

TimeProblemsThinkBecomeAnything

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.

Dorothy Hamill

FunPeopleThinkIceDangerousVery

Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs to redouble its efforts if we're really going to make a difference in combating autism.

Chris Smith

GovernmentSocietyMake A Difference

From the end spring new beginnings.

Pliny the Elder

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