Amiri Baraka Quotes
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
Quotes to Explore
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
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For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.
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If the right guy pops the question, I'll say yes.
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Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.
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Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.
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The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
