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:
“Luxury, then is a way of
being ignorant, comfortably
An approach to the open market
of least information.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“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)
“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)