Leroi 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. The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.

Bell Hooks

#3. Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

Jennie Finch

#4. The purse strings tie us to our kind.

Walter Bagehot

#5. If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. If they're dumb enough to walk away be , strong enough to let them go

Various

#7. If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Benito Mussolini

#8. Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed,

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Read, mediate and pray.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

LeRoi Jones

#11. Speak to me of the dark gifts. I use them. I'm gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the candle.

Anne Rice

#12. Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

Sun Tzu

#13. Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

William James

#14. Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#16. I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.

Lady Gaga

#17. We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others.

Armand Marie Leroi