Amiri Baraka Quotes
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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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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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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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The self really is an illusion-and realizing this is the basis of spiritual life.
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I stay focused on details It keeps me from feeling the big things But watch the microscope long enough Things that seem still are still changing
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What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
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Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.
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The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.
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I look like everyone.
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Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.
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'Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia.
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I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
