Quote

And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.

Amiri Baraka

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Music Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
Numbers
Stars
Night
Come
Counted
Count
Holes
Number
Leave

More quotes by Amiri Baraka

Image
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
Amiri Baraka
Image
Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
Amiri Baraka
Image
When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.
Amiri Baraka
Image
Hope is delicate suffering.
Amiri Baraka
Image
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
Amiri Baraka
Image
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.
Amiri Baraka
Image
God is man idealized.
Amiri Baraka
Image
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
Amiri Baraka
Image
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
Amiri Baraka
Image
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.
Amiri Baraka
Image
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
Amiri Baraka
Image
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.
Amiri Baraka
Image
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
Amiri Baraka
Image
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
Amiri Baraka
Image
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.
Amiri Baraka
Image
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.
Amiri Baraka
Image
Back home the black women are all beautiful
Amiri Baraka
Image
All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
Amiri Baraka
Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.
Amiri Baraka
Image
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Amiri Baraka