Amiri Baraka Quotes

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Good is the delay which makes sure.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

People seem to want to know stuff that's going to happen before it happens sometimes instead of just enjoying it and following the ride and just seeing where it takes you.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.