Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 October 1934
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Back home the black women are all beautiful
An evil word it is/ This Love,
I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.
A man is either free or he is not.
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.