Famous quotes containing the word baraka:
“Back home the black women are all beautiful”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Love is an evil word.
Turn it backwards/ see, what I mean?”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)