Amiri Baraka

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)

    the cluttered eyes
    of early mysterious night.
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    It burns the thing
    inside it. And that thing
    screams.
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    Kind
    death. O
    my dark and sultry
    love.
    —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)