Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka is quoted here; further biographical details are not publicly available.
More from Amiri Baraka (44 quotes) →Keep reading Amiri Baraka
- “I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.”Amiri Baraka
- “You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not livi…”Amiri Baraka
- “A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.”Amiri Baraka
- “I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the pa…”Amiri Baraka
French Sayings: more sayings
- “When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul musi…”Jain
- “If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you h…”Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Repub…”Charles Maurras
Explore Time
- “One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material ci…”Geraldine Brooks
- “Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on aroun…”Tom Bergeron
- “I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or no…”Dana Perino
READ THE SOURCE
Books by Amiri Baraka
Blues people
1963
Black Fire
2007
Black music
2010
Eulogies
2002