Amiri Baraka Professions : Writer Born : October 7, 1934 Died : January 9, 2014 Browse All Authors Top 67 quotes by Amiri Baraka My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's name was LeRoi, the French-ified aspect of it, because his first name was Coyette, you see. They come from South Carolina. Amiri Baraka you family time father 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 black white country america You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know. Amiri Baraka you slavery children people We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society. Amiri Baraka american understand impact society My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood. Amiri Baraka thought you culture thinking This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. Amiri Baraka flag us president said 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 me man god death Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors