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
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
What will be / the sacred words?
You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank...
God is man idealized.
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
The future is always here in the past
Hope is delicate suffering.
Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.