Amiri Baraka Quotes

I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.

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• I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Day

• I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Country
  • Want
  • Artist

• I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
  • Style
  • Makeup

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Movies

• Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Military
  • Week
  • Broke

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Meat

• People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Tenure

• I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Outside

• I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Sports
  • Hockey

• I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Exactly

• I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Moral

• Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Good
  • Education
  • Eyes

• You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Live
  • Book

• I really loved touring with my band, but it felt like we would spend a lot of time playing in empty rooms - empty clubs. We had some good successes, but it's so physically hard to load up a van and drive all day.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Simple
  • Dark
  • Eye

• I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

  

  Broderick Crawford

• I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.

  

  Alessandro Michele

• Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Reach
  • Factors

• I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.

  

  Amiri Baraka