Famous quotes containing the words imamu amiri baraka, amiri baraka, imamu amiri, amiri and/or baraka:
“Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Riding out
from this town, to another, where
it is also black.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Nobody sings anymore.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“For all of him dead and
gone and vanished from us, and all of him which
clings to our speech black god of our time.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)