Grandfather Quote by Amiri Baraka Download Open image “I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.” — Amiri Baraka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grandfather Name
I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle. — Dorothy Malone Copy Share Image
My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. — Alexander Downer Copy Share Image
My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
I have my real name and RJ. I've gone by RJ since I was eight, but I was named Roy after my grandfather. They… — RJ Mitte Copy Share Image
My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest newspaper. He… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by… — Keith Coogan Copy Share Image
I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away… — Keith Coogan Copy Share Image
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. — Joely Fisher Copy Share Image
I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice.… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to… — Ashton Holmes Copy Share Image
My grandfather is a retired Marine, and I've always had a great deal of respect for anyone who serves our country. — Kellie Pickler Copy Share Image
She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
