Amiri Baraka Quotes

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

~ Amiri Baraka

Let there be no love poems writtenUntil love can exist freely andCleanly.

~ Amiri Baraka

We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

~ Amiri Baraka

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

~ Amiri Baraka

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

~ Amiri Baraka

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

~ Amiri Baraka