106 Quotes by Amiri Baraka

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

What will be / the sacred words?

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank...

God is man idealized.

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.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

The future is always here in the past

Hope is delicate suffering.