Famous quotes containing the words imamu amiri baraka, amiri baraka, imamu amiri, amiri and/or baraka:
“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)
“I am inside someone
who hates me.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Kind
death. O
my dark and sultry
love.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Love is an evil word.
Turn it backwards/ see, what I mean?”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)