Imamu Amiri Baraka

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    his address
    to the grey monsters of the world,
    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)

    his address
    to the grey monsters of the world,
    Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka [Everett Leroi Jones] (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)