Famous quotes containing the words imamu amiri baraka, amiri baraka, imamu amiri, amiri and/or baraka:
“I am a soul in the world: in
the world of my soul the whirled
light from the day
the sacked land
of my father.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Riding out
from this town, to another, where
it is also black.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?”
—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)
“Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern & his undersea folk.
At 11, Let’s Pretend/& we did/& I, the poet, still do, Thank God!”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)