Imamu Amiri Baraka Quotes

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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.

Imamu 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.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Walk it slow where you go walk it slow... We in the world Poor as dirt Don't get some rhythm Somebody'll get hurt the world is black the world is green the world is red, yellow, brown the world is mean

Imamu Amiri Baraka

We are beautiful people
with african imaginations
full of masks and dances and swelling chants
with african eyes, and noses, and arms,
though we sprawl in gray chains in a place
full of winters when what we want is sun.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank...

Imamu Amiri Baraka

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Born: October 7, 1934

Died: January 9, 2014 (aged 79)

Bio: Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.

Known for:

Blues People (1963)
Somebody blew up America, & other poems (2003)
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader (1991)
The autobiography of LeRoi Jones (1984)
Tales of the Out & the Gone (2007)

Most used words:

man, love, people, white, jew, walk

Imamu Amiri Baraka on Wikipedia

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