Imamu Amiri Baraka

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    Nobody sings anymore.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    Luxury, then is a way of
    being ignorant, comfortably
    An approach to the open market
    of least information.
    —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)

    Kind
    death. O
    my dark and sultry
    love.
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (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)