Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.

Alain LeRoy Locke

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• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Stand

• To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • People
  • Free
  • Picture

• I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Generation
  • Strategy

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Live
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Different
  • Generation

• Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Voice

• My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Care
  • Generation

• My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Bad
  • Listening
  • Advice

• The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Same

• The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Voice
  • Deserve

• That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Today
  • Me
  • Voice

• I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Words
  • Me
  • Voice

• Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Water
  • Voice

• Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Poetry
  • Better
  • Voice

• I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Myself
  • Travel
  • Voice

• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  

  Kanye West
  • Artist
  • Generation
  • Shakespeare

• I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Point

• I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Generation

• I'm not even sure I like surgery, but I like what it does, I like the effects. I like to be able to give people longevity and quality of life, and I also think it's good for people to use the special gifts and talents that they have. And when I was in medical school, when I began to analyze the gifts and talents that I had, I realized that surgery would probably be a very good fit for me.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Gifts
  • Talents
  • Surgery

• [James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Important
  • Voice
  • Periods

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.

  

  Alain LeRoy Locke
  • Voice
  • Generation
  • Gifts