Amiri Baraka Quotations

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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