Amiri Baraka Quotes
As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.
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As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
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Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.
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Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.
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Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
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As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.
