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Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: April 29, 1947

Topics

Work Father Value Me Tools Know

I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

I Am View Artist Point Of View See

I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.

Love Ocean Brain Smoking Friends Go

I've always felt like an outsider, and I'll probably continue to always feel like an outsider. Hopefully that's a good thing. I feel like I approach things differently than other designers.

Good Feel Always Outsider Things

I wanted to be successful. I definitely didn't want to be poor.

Want Poor Successful Wanted

I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

Life Love Identity World Think Long

I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And then Stevie Wonder came up and sang 'Ribbon In the Sky.' It was impromptu... It was cool... He's always been a friend and a mentor to me.

Friend Sky Me Cool Wedding You

We want people to take responsibility for how healthy they are, and we want to help them live longer, healthier lives.

Live Responsibility People Help Want

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

Change Time Responsibility People Go

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

People Opportunities Go Sometimes

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

Music People Cool Think You Born

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Simple Politics People Me Die You

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Life Love Happy Profound Deepest

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