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Amiri Baraka Quotes

Amiri Baraka quotes

American Poet October 7, 1934

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Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts beating them down. Fuck poems and they are useful, wd they shoot come at you, love what you are, breathe like wrestlers, or shudder strangely after pissing. We want live words of the hip world live flesh & coursing blood. Hearts Brains Souls splintering fire. We want poems like fists beating niggers out of Jocks or dagger poems in the slimy bellies of... Amiri Baraka
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! Amiri Baraka
This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white man's only way into it). The emergence of the white player meant that Afro-American culture had already become the expression of a particular kind of American experience, and what is most important, that this experience was available intellectually, that it could be learned. Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka quote: "God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with..."
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. Amiri Baraka
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
Amiri Baraka quote: "You look like death eating a soda cracker."
You look like death eating a soda cracker. Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka quote: "I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes."
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Amiri Baraka
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
Amiri Baraka quote: "A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells..."
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money. Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka quote: "To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it..."
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka quote: "A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any..."
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka quote: "There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for..."
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you Amiri Baraka
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
Amiri Baraka quote: "can't be rockefeller ... must be the devil"
can't be rockefeller ... must be the devil Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka quote: "what is lost because it is most preciouswhat is most precious..."
what is lost because it is most preciouswhat is most precious because it is lost Amiri Baraka

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