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Ornette Coleman Quotes

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

Ornette Coleman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 9, 1930 - June 11, 2015

Topics

I Am Me Black Find Poor Try

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Finance School Drive Teach How

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

Good World Early Years Pay Up

Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout.

Michele Bachmann

Wall Street Wall Street Both Newt

Breaking news: there is only one Missy.

News Only Breaking

Female poets in the 17th century had these very confined, restricted lives.

Century Poets Female Very Restricted

If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.

Good Song Easy You Bad Play

I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.

Teacher Environmental Law Small Bank

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Words Poetry Canvas Just Like Were

I think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.

Community People Growing Up Think Up

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

Want Singer Star Ambitious Actress

I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

Svetlana Alexievich

Life History Soul Picture Everyday

There's a lot more to success than just singing.

Success Singing More Just Than Lot

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