Quote

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

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
Oppose
Domestic
Cover
Terrorism
International
Used
Thinking
People

More quotes by Amiri Baraka

Image
There is no depth to education without art.
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
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
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
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
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
Amiri Baraka
Image
Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
Amiri Baraka
Image
In America, black is a country.
Amiri Baraka
Image
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
Amiri Baraka
Image
God is man idealized.
Amiri Baraka
Image
My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri Baraka
Image
An evil word it is/ This Love.
Amiri Baraka
Image
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.
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
What will be / the sacred words?
Amiri Baraka
Image
You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
Amiri Baraka