106 Quotes by Amiri Baraka

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

In America, black is a country.

And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won’t come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.