Amiri Baraka Quotes
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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.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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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.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
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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.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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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.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
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Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
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Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.
