Ishmael Reed Quotes

Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.

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• I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Day
  • Best

• Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Marriage
  • Two
  • Three

• I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.

  

  Gary Player
  • Mind
  • Fascinating

• God sendeth cold after clothes.

  

  William Camden
  • Cold
  • Clothes
  • Providence

• Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

  

  George Washington
  • Importance
  • Weight
  • Objects

• Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Heart
  • Mean

• the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Play
  • Actors
  • Certain

• Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Enough
  • Silly
  • Ignorant

• It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way he analyzes not only this country but also the history of this country, the images that this country is fabricating through Hollywood, and what consequence that has in our imagination.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Imagination
  • Impact
  • Consequence

• From time immemorial war has always caused widespread displacements of population. Driven abroad by the destruction of their homes, fleeing from the neighbourhood of the battlefields or from the threat of enemy occupation, floods of refugees have always taken to the roads in search of a haven which is never easy to find.

  

  Eugene M. Kulischer
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Search

• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Basic
  • Supplied

• I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • Justice
  • Songs
  • Fascinating

• A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Art
  • Law
  • Practice

• The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

  

  Geoffrey Faber
  • Because
  • Publisher
  • Dances

• This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who says, Last night, the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder, is this a message, finally, or just another day?

  

  Eleanor Lerman
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Choose

• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Great
  • Man
  • Blessings

• The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Trying
  • Reflect

• All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Write
  • Sheet Of Paper

• Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.

  

  Ishmael Reed
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  • Dances
  • Choreographer