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
Famous quotes by amiri baraka:
“Kind
death. O
my dark and sultry
love.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Riding out
from this town, to another, where
it is also black.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Luxury, then is a way of
being ignorant, comfortably
An approach to the open market
of least information.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“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)
“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)