I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely.… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
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… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
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… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Amiri Baraka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d03/amiri-baraka-8050_arithmetic_atheist-jews-double-crossers-stole-our-b_2800678.jpg)
