Amiri Baraka Quotes about Art

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

Art, Proud, Art Is

The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... that’s the only way art can function naturally.

Amiri Baraka

Art, Clothes, People

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

Amiri Baraka

Art, Political, Claims

There is no depth to education without art.

Amiri Baraka

Art, Depth

Amiri Baraka (2009). “Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music”, p.108, Univ of California Press

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

Amiri Baraka

Art, Struggle, Class

"Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas: interviewing amiri baraka". Interview With Sophie Erskine, www.3ammagazine.com.

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 to understand what art is.

Amiri Baraka

Art, Learning, Understanding

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”

Amiri Baraka Quotes about Art

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