Amiri Baraka Quotes
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sell their goods to the growing Chinese consumer class. Chinese consumers will get to buy the American products they want. This, in turn, will help create American jobs and increase U.S. exports.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run.
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'You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.'
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We have to acknowledge that those past human right abuses existed and so we can't go forward without looking back, and understanding that was enormous problem, not just for America but also problem for the Indonesian people...
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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As American citizens, if you believe all banks were bailed out, you would hate banks. I would, too.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
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I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.
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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
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I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
