106 Quotes by Amiri Baraka

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

An evil word it is/ This Love,

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.

A man is either free or he is not.

Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.