Quotes by Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

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

Evil

Love Is

Mean

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

Men

Money

People

An evil word it is/ This Love.

Evil

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.

Night

Numbers

Stars

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

Art

Class

Struggle

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

Art

Art Is

Proud

Back home the black women are all beautiful

Beautiful

Beauty

Home

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.

Father

Land

Light

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.

America

People

Stupid

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Emphasis

Musical

Poetry Is

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America

Art

Art Is

Artist

Beautiful

Beauty

Black

Class

Clothes

Differences

Divinity

Emphasis

Evil

Father

Fiction

Home

Ideas

Jew

Land

Landscape

Light

Love Is

Mean

Men

Money

Musical

Names

Night

Numbers

Ownership

Past

People

Poetry Is

Proud

Roles

Sacred

Stars

Struggle

Stupid

Sweet

Syndromes

Tell Me You Love Me

Thinking

Waiting

White

World

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Quotes by Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

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

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

An evil word it is/ This Love.

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.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

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.

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.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

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