Amiri Baraka Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

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

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

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.