American Quote by Amiri Baraka Download Open image “We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.” — Amiri Baraka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare American American society Impact Society Understand
I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“Malcolm (X) talked about the need to shift our focus from race to class, both among one another and between ourselves and the white… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that.… — Kekla Magoon Copy Share Image
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“I spent most of my time floating on an inflatable raft in the pristine Mediterranean waters, my big belly curving toward the sun, reading (incongruously) The Autobiography of Malcolm X. It rocked me to my core. Malcolm’s story opened a window onto a reality I had ignored. But the greatest revelation the book brought me was the possibility of profound… — Jane Fonda Copy Share
As someone who has an affinity and passion for discussing racial and cultural issues, I made it a point to only discuss those issues… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle. As… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other… — Spike Lee 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
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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
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
