This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. Amiri Baraka confederatecounterfeitflag Change image and share on social
I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. 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 americabohemianbohemianism share on social
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 airblackclass share on social
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. Amiri Baraka apprenticeshipfreefreedom Change image and share on social
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 americanbusconscious share on social
I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America. Amiri Baraka americachangedeeply Change image and share on social
Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution. Amiri Baraka makemaorevolution Change image and share on social
Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness. Amiri Baraka desperatelydestructionforce share on social
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 analysisbaldwincondemnation Change image and share on social
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. Amiri Baraka pasplacewait Change image and share on social