Amiri Baraka Quotes

Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.

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• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Simple
  • Missing

• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Angst

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • All Things

• You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • New
  • Wave

• I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Mind
  • Working
  • Big

• My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Perception
  • Mystery

• Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Why
  • Decision

• Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Great
  • Something
  • Lot

• Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Country
  • Sometimes
  • Christmas

• There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • See
  • Something

• In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • High
  • Amazing
  • Lawyers

• I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him. For all this to happen, it's hard to explain what a dream this is when you love something as much as I love traditional country music.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • Good
  • Music
  • Country

• I started skating when I was 2 years old because of my older sister Natasha was a skater, and I wanted to be just like her!

  

  Kaetlyn Osmond
  • Sister

• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Country