Amiri Baraka Professions : Writer Born : October 7, 1934 Died : January 9, 2014 Browse All Authors Top 67 quotes by Amiri Baraka To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. Amiri Baraka names waiting thinking Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle. Amiri Baraka struggle class art Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds. Amiri Baraka warrior poet world And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave. Amiri Baraka stars numbers night Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis. Amiri Baraka emphasis musical poetry-is I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Amiri Baraka hate eye looks Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities. Amiri Baraka wells reality world what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost Amiri Baraka lost If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. Amiri Baraka flags government enemy The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. Amiri Baraka black people art James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world. Amiri Baraka different-experiences two world A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills Amiri Baraka cures social people & love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word. Amiri Baraka evil love-is mean Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured Amiri Baraka tell-me-you-love-me syndromes jew You can't be an American without being related to other Americans. Amiri Baraka related I am a soul in the world: in Amiri Baraka light land father Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston? Amiri Baraka divinity fiction thinking Back home the black women are all beautiful Amiri Baraka home beautiful beauty The future is always here in the past Amiri Baraka past What will be / the sacred words? Amiri Baraka sacred Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
