Amiri Baraka Quotes

There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • You
  • Artist
  • Explain

• I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Think

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Government
  • Politics
  • More

• If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Support

• During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Children
  • Political
  • Small

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • See
  • Hiding

• 'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.

  

  Becky G
  • Age
  • Fans
  • Ready

• America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • America
  • Thank God

• I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Sun
  • Cancer
  • Inside

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Home
  • Just
  • Go

• It's really cool to be able to do both. I get a chance to be in this film with these amazing actors, the coolest people ever, and I try to kiteboard as much in my free time as I can.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Time
  • Free

• My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Life
  • Song
  • Friend

• I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Laugh
  • Out
  • Loud

• You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.

  

  Demetrious Johnson

• There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

  

  James Q. Wilson
  • American

• I never called him Prince because I wanted him to be a person to me, not the man behind 'Purple Rain'. Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol... When we got married, it was much easier. If someone else was there, I could say, 'Could I speak to my husband, please?'

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Husband
  • Rain
  • Prince

• There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.

  

  Amiri Baraka
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