Quotes by Imamu Amiri Baraka

Imamu Amiri Baraka

African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction

Lived from: 1934 - 2014

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  • A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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  • A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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  • God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
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  • This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
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  • 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.
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  • To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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What are the most famous quotes from Imamu Amiri Baraka?

The two most famous quotes from Imamu Amiri Baraka are:

  • "A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."
  • "A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money."

When did Imamu Amiri Baraka live?

Imamu Amiri Baraka was born in 1934 and died in the year 2014.