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I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.

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• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Decision
  • End
  • February

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• Slack spread through businesses like wildfire, initially in the tech and media sectors, but now much more widely. At its public launch in February 2014, it had 17,000 users. As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7 million daily active users.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Daily
  • Media
  • April

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Chicago
  • February
  • January

• It's February the 22ndAnd I can't tell a lie.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • February

• We thank God that our enemies are idiots. (6 February 2006) 10

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • God
  • February

• In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction of three families in the Bronx, observing, 'Probably because of the cold, the crowd numbered only 1,000.'

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Community
  • Cold
  • February

• The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

  

  Klaus Fuchs
  • Time
  • March
  • February

• Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

  

  Dustin Moskovitz
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can't they get married in February?

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Summer

• What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a lot, I don't have to learn any foreign languages, and it doesn't shoot in Minneapolis in February. That's mainly what I look for.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Long
  • February

• I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, February 1980, was De Niro and Scorsese in 'Raging Bull,' and when I went back, it was 'Cape Fear,' with De Niro and Scorsese. I picked up right where I left off at.

  

  August Wilson
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Fear

• I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

  

  Andy Hertzfeld
  • Time
  • Free
  • February

• Now, of course, people know that over the last several months prior to February 21st, 1965, the OAAU and MMI tried to get away from the old practices of checking people at the door for weapons. They wanted people to feel more comfortable.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Feels
  • Door

• The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • May
  • Effort

• Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

  

  Arnold Adoff
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Poem

• He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Me
  • Wonder

• An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

  

  Anthony Bourdain

• The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Death
  • Quest

• If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you've got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what's gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that's in the industry has lost their edge.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Guy
  • Lost

• I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.

  

  Emily Susan Rapp
  • Poem
  • February
  • I Write