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.

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

Amiri Baraka

Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.

Amiri Baraka

When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly become unreasonable.

When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly become unreasonable.

Amiri Baraka

Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.

Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.

Amiri Baraka

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

Amiri Baraka

There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.

There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.

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

I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'

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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