Amiri Baraka/1980-present

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

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

    the cluttered eyes
    of early mysterious night.
    —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)