Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.. Other than James Baldwin, Baraka was the most respected and most widely published Black writer of his generation.
Read more about Amiri Baraka: Early Life (1934-1965), 1966–1980, 1980–present, Controversies, Honors and Awards, Works, Film Appearances
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“Malcolm’s words
fire darts, the victor’s tireless
thrusts, words hung above the world
change as it may, he said it, and
for this he was killed,”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“It burns the thing
inside it. And that thing
screams.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka [Everett Leroi Jones] (b. 1934)
“I am inside someone
who hates me.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“For all of him dead and
gone and vanished from us, and all of him which
clings to our speech black god of our time.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)