Author: Amiri Baraka

Quotes

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

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

- Amiri Baraka

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

- 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

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

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

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

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