Amiri Baraka Poetry Quotes & Sayings

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online. — Andrew Sullivan

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ. — Evander Holyfield

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. — Benjamin Disraeli

From now on . . ."

kiss.

"When it rains . . ."

kiss.

"Think of me. — Lisa De Jong

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis. — Amiri Baraka

Well, not in this case. He reached into the Inquisitor and he twisted ... " Clary shuddered. "There was a lot of blood."
"Like a special bonus for you," Jace said to Simon.
Simon ignored this. — Cassandra Clare

We need not want what we are the middle of. — James Bertolino

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd. — Anita Loos

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy. — Joel Kinnaman

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is ... political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act. — Amiri Baraka

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie. — Joseph Heller

Who's the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who's horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other? — Rebecca Stead

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation. — Vladimir Putin

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people. — Anthony Bourdain

I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become - — Leila Aboulela