Darryl Pinckney The name James Baldwin had been around the house for as long as I could remember and meant almost as much as that of Martin Luther King. – Darryl Pinckney Baldwin Quotes House Quotes James Quotes King Quotes Luther Quotes Martin Quotes Meant Quotes Remember Quotes Baldwin gave expression to the longings of blacks in exalted prose. He was embraced, in the tradition of Negro Firsterism, even by those who never sat down with a book, as our preeminent literary spokesman, whether he liked it or not. Neither athlete nor entertainer, but nevertheless a star. Go Tell It on the Mountain,’ its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.
Foster Friess I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year. – Foster Friess
Karolina Kurkova It’s a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself. – Karolina Kurkova
Simon Beaufoy I used to live on a barge – it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored. – Simon Beaufoy
Arundhati Roy To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that’s the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves. – Arundhati Roy
Adam Carolla I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality. – Adam Carolla
Elif Safak Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn’t meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me. – Elif Safak
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