Top 42 Quotes by Amiri Baraka

About Amiri Baraka

These are some quotes by American author Amiri Baraka Poet, who lived between October 7, 1934 and January 9, 2014.

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!

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

I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

Amiri Baraka

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

Amiri Baraka

The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat.

Amiri Baraka

I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

Amiri Baraka

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

Amiri Baraka

Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.

Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.

Amiri Baraka

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

Amiri Baraka

I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.

I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.

Amiri Baraka

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

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

Amiri Baraka

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