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

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.

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

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

Amiri Baraka

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

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.

Amiri Baraka

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

Amiri Baraka

I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.

Amiri Baraka

I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.

I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.

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

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