Amiri Baraka Quotes - Page 2

• I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.

  Amiri Baraka

  Hate, Eye, Looks

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

  Amiri Baraka

  Two, Different Experiences, World

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• I am inside someone
  who hates me. I look
  out from his eyes. Smell
  what fouled tunes come in
  to his breath. Love his
  wretched women.

  Amiri Baraka

  Hate, Eye, Smell

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

  Amiri Baraka

  Ideas, Diferencias, Mundo

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• Las palabras tienen usuarios, pero también, los usuarios tienen palabras. Y son los usuarios los que establecen las realidades del mundo.

  Amiri Baraka

  Reality, World, Wells

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1966). “Home: Social Essays”, New York : Morrow

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• To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

  Amiri Baraka

  Thinking, Names, Waiting

  Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books

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• Y ahora cada noche cuento las estrellas. Y cada noche obtengo el mismo número. Y cuando las estrellas no vienen a ser contadas, cuento los agujeros que dejan.

  Amiri Baraka

  Stars, Night, Numbers

  Amiri Baraka, “Preface to a Twenty Volume SuICIDe Note”

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• You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

  Amiri Baraka

  Relacionado

  "Revolution song" by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2007.

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• Un sistema que almacena a las personas no es la cura para los males sociales

  Amiri Baraka

  People, Social, Cures

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• 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.
  But that will not liberate Black people.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, People, Black

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1971). “Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays Since 1965”

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• 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

  Government, Enemy, Flags

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• Back home the black women are all beautiful

  Amiri Baraka

  Beauty, Beautiful, Home

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1969). “Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art: Collected Poetry, 1961-1967”

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• what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

  Amiri Baraka

  Perdido

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1975). “Three books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).”, Grove Pr

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• & love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

  Amiri Baraka

  Mean, Love Is, Evil

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.

  Amiri Baraka

  Atheist, Talking, People

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• Sonríe, judío. Baila, judío. Dime que me amas, judío ... Tengo el blues exterminio, jewboys. Tengo el síndrome de Hitler

  Amiri Baraka

  Syndromes, Tell Me You Love Me, Jew

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1969). “Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art: Collected Poetry, 1961-1967”

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• I am a soul in the world: in
  the world of my soul the whirled
  light from the day
  the sacked land
  of my father.

  Amiri Baraka

  Father, Light, Land

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1975). “Three books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).”, Grove Pr

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• Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

  Amiri Baraka

  Thinking, Fiction, Divinity

  "In Memory of Radio" l. 1 (1961)

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Money, Men, People

  Kulchur Spring 1962 "Tokenism"

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• Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.

  Amiri Baraka

  Men, White Man, Faces

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1966). “Home: Social Essays”, New York : Morrow

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• Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
  The ground opens up and envelopes me
  Each time I go out to walk the dog.

  Amiri Baraka

  Death, Dog, Envelopes

  "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" l. 1 (1961)

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• What will be / the sacred words?

  Amiri Baraka

  Sagrado

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1979). “Selected poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones”, William Morrow &Company

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• 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

  Stupid, America, People

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• An evil word it is/ This Love.

  Amiri Baraka

  El mal

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