Quote

An evil word it is/ This Love.

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
Word
Evil
Love

More quotes by Amiri Baraka

Image
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
Image
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.
Amiri Baraka
Image
What will be / the sacred words?
Amiri Baraka
Image
Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
Amiri Baraka
Image
The future is always here in the past
Amiri Baraka
Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.
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
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
Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.
Amiri Baraka
Image
Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
Amiri Baraka
Image
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
Amiri Baraka
Image
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.
Amiri Baraka
Image
In America, black is a country.
Amiri Baraka
Image
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
Amiri Baraka
Image
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
Amiri Baraka
Image
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Amiri Baraka
Image
from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
Amiri Baraka
Image
There is no depth to education without art.
Amiri Baraka