Amiri Baraka/1980-present

Famous quotes containing the words amiri baraka, amiri and/or baraka:

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

    Riding out
    from this town, to another, where
    it is also black.
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    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)