Leroi Jones Quotes

#1. I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.

Rashid Johnson

#2. In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

Allan Sherman

#3. One can oppose the shallow optimism of so many Western thinkers and yet refuse to negate life.

Walter Kaufmann

#4. As long as we persevere, we shall succeed in any endeavour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

LeRoi Jones

#6. Our lives are scattered throughout with periods of unbelonging; in childhood, of course, and adolescence; but in adulthood too, when sudden loss (or gain) forces us to reassess things we believe immutable.

Clive Barker

#7. Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

Bryan Chapell

#9. He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

Flannery O'Connor

#10. Don't wait till you get bigger to put in place key items, such as staff surveys, peer interviewing for hiring and clear standards of behavior [developed by staff].

Quint Studer

#11. She'd wanted to grow up to be a superhero, and in a left-turn kind of way she felt like she was on track.

Janet Evanovich

#12. Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. Our closeness to the Lord will, in great measure, determine the peace and comfort and renewed strength that we feel as we invite the Spirit into our lives.

Robert E. Wells

#14. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Ernest Hemingway,