106 Quotes by Amiri Baraka

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.