Amiri Baraka Quotes - Page 2

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

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.

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.

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

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

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

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

A man is either free or he is not.

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.

God is man idealized.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

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

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

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.

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

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.

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

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

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

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

What will be / the sacred words?

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.

An evil word it is/ This Love.