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Amiri Baraka, born Leroy Jones, was an American writer, poet, playwright, political activist, and music critic. His work spanned poetry, novels, plays, and music criticism, and had a profound impact on American literature and black culture.

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Famous Amiri Baraka Quotes

“James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.”

World Two Different Universe Brown Quantity Frank Popular Music Different Experiences

Author:Amiri Baraka

“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.”

World Soul Light Father Land My Soul

Book:Three books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).

Source: Three books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).

“The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.”

World Ideas Differences Slavery Complexes Complicated Violent Native

Author:Amiri Baraka

“Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.”

World Poet Warrior Loveliness

Author: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.”

People Knows World Artist Consciousness Roles Raises

Author:Amiri Baraka

“Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.”

World Wells Reality Users

Book:Home: Social Essays

Source: Home: Social Essays

About the Author

Born: October 7, 1934
Died: January 9, 2014
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 54

Books & Sources

Home: Social EssaysRelated source material

S O S: Poems 1961-2013Related source material

Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art: Collected Poetry, 1961-1967Related source material

Three books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).Related source material

Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979Related source material

Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical MusicRelated source material

Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays Since 1965Related source material

Selected poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi JonesRelated source material

Somebody Blew Up America and Other PoemsRelated source material

System of Dante's HellRelated source material

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