Quotes
Authors
Amiri Baraka

"The word â€œartâ€ is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate peopleâ€™s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and itâ€™s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... Itâ€™s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... thatâ€™s the only way art can function naturally."

-- Amiri Baraka

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“Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.”
“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.”

Source : Molly Ivins (1991). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Random House Incorporated
“At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.”
“I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force as a producer. She paved the way for women to produce and star in their own films, and to balance that with being the matriarch of our family is really inspiring.”
“The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.”
“I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV... something has gone terribly wrong.”
“I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.”
“The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.”

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