Amiri Baraka Quotes

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

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• I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

  

  Odette Annable
  • Want
  • Like
  • Lift

• 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.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Sex

• I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Taken
  • Photography
  • Modeling

• The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Story
  • Generation
  • Jews

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

  Manika
  • Life
  • Music
  • Imagine

• Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• 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.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
  • Job
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Travel
  • Write

• If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Busy
  • Greater
  • Little Things

• 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.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Long
  • Training

• 'You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.'

  

  Banksy

• 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...

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Past

• The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Criticism

• Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Said

• I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her!

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Women
  • Love
  • Experience

• I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Education

• I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

  

  Amiri Baraka