Amiri Baraka
Hope is delicate suffering.Collection: Hope
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.Collection: Moving
Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.Collection: Art
from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullshipCollection: Slave Ships
I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.Collection: Believe
When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.Collection: Sweet
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.Collection: Loss
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.Collection: Art
All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the otherCollection: Thinking
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.Collection: Musical
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.Collection: Warrior
Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Stars
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.Collection: Hate
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.Collection: People
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social illsCollection: People
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.Collection: Two
A man is either free or he is not.Collection: Freedom
Back home the black women are all beautifulCollection: Beauty
God is man idealized.Collection: Men
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lostCollection: Lost
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Atheist
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figuredCollection: Syndromes
Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?Collection: Thinking
Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.Collection: Men
What will be / the sacred words?Collection: Sacred
An evil word it is/ This Love.Collection: Evil