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Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine.
ET the Hiphop Preacher and Greg Plitt
When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
I am a big David Bowie fan.
Lauren "Lo" Howard, proud graduate of Howard University where she majored in integrated marketing and minored in business administration. What was she now? Almost a convicted felon. Lo
Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is really remarkable.
I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.
You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love spells with psychoanalysts
his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars
I've always liked Tina Turner.
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.
When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.
Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
My great-great-great-grandmother
I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.
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.
No one knew his first name, and in general he was known in the country as Beauty Smith. But he was anything save a beauty. To antithesis was due his naming. He was preeminently unbeautiful. Nature had been niggardly with him.
Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.
Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.
She was the kind of girl that inspired love songs and erotic poetry.
The sorcery is not confined to the story; it's matched by the magic of Austin's literary craftsmanship.
--Leland Dirks, author of Angelo's Journey
An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.
SOLOMON KUGEL
His performance, of late,
had been subpar.
Born, unfortunately. Died eventually.
Legendary rock musician. Poet laureate of the working class. Voice of America's conscience.
Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.
All things considered, there is only Matisse.
Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?
He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.
In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
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.
James Pierpont, one of the founders of Yale University.
I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
Rosie Germaine Mole.
Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You
Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself.
Ali ... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.
Clearing her throat, Peabody turned the cube on record. I owe Dallas, Lieutenant Meaniepants Eve, twenty dollars to be paid out of my hard-earned, under-appreciated detective's salary next payday. Peabody, Detective Churchmouse Delia.
[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.
I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.
When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
Thomas Jefferson - another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me.
I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
And Bernice Johnson, who organized the Albany Freedom Singers and was expelled from Albany State College for her determined involvement in the movement.
While explaining God to his granddaughter Daska, Horace Dade Ashton said, 'God was everything she breathed and walked on, everything that lived, everything she saw, touched, and felt. God was in every one of us.
Bowie's been a huge influence on me.
Sinatra was somebody special.
In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana.
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges,
David Copperfield.
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
I believe that ever person is born with talent
Maya Angelou
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.
Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.
The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry.
[Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.
I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.
Bill Cosby 18th.
The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.
Large Professor, none greater none fresher,
Won't fold under pressure ... grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.
James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
Everyone had a place. Everyone fit. Everyone belonged. Everyone but Anna Mae.
You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.
Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.
Mrs. Marshall Elliott,
STANFORD LOCKWOOD
WORLD'S BEST FATHER
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs.
I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.
But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.
The finest woman that ever walked the streets.
The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!
if you're going to use the word 'dream' in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.
Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.
In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say congratulations.