Famous quotes containing the words imamu amiri baraka, amiri baraka, imamu amiri, amiri and/or baraka:
“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)
“Malcolm’s words
fire darts, the victor’s tireless
thrusts, words hung above the world
change as it may, he said it, and
for this he was killed,”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“For all of him dead and
gone and vanished from us, and all of him which
clings to our speech black god of our time.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Nobody sings anymore.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)