Black Arts Movement Quotes

#1. I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater or the Black Arts Movement; people who claim that I was are wrong. I was downtown. I was living in Chelsea when they were operating in Harlem.

Ishmael Reed

#2. We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ...

Nikki Giovanni

#3. Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

Gerry Cooney

#4. Creativity is taking a different approach on the world, not the world as we know it, but a world that oneself can create through imagination.

Henry Johnson Jr

#5. I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because that is more important to me than the lighting, which I just do in a minute right before, but I spend a long time on the soundtracks.

Carol Friedman

#6. I don't know what to say. I hate that. I wish I had all the answers for you. I wish I could explain why this happened.

Katie Kacvinsky

#7. How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young girl instead. Why couldn't I have been born to a better world?

Gary Shteyngart

#8. Every girl would secretly want to be "the one" even though she might lie to herself that she did not.

Kristen Ashley

#9. I was asked something about the economic problem of Communism. I answered, citing Dostoyevsky: The problem of Communism is not an economic problem. The problem of Communism is the problem of atheism.

Whittaker Chambers

#10. A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#11. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

Rick Baker

#13. I have always been able to move on musically. I've always been able to make all generations dance and love.

Donnie Simpson

#14. Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

Mary J. Blige

#15. The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

Ernest Rutherford

#16. Guarda il cielo. Non troverai mai un arcobaleno se stai guardando per terra.
Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down.

Charlie Chaplin

#17. I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

Kelly Osbourne