Quotes from Amiri Baraka

Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies which will merely be America being itself rather than its unconvincing promise.

I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

There is no depth to education without art.

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

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.