Amiri Baraka Quotes

I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

Amiri Baraka

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke

• It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Working

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Dream
  • Sweet

• I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Hair
  • Pink
  • Fifteen

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • America
  • Party

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Work
  • Hurt

• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

  

  James Gray
  • Art
  • Book
  • Truth

• The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Philosophy

• I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Space

• When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Why

• I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Mind
  • America