Imamu Amiri Baraka - People Quotes

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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

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.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

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.

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