Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University.
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About the Amiri Baraka
Amiri Barakainvolved controversy over a public reading of his poem “Somebody Blew Up America?”, which resulted in accusations of antisemitism and negative attention from critics and politicians over his assertion that the US and Israeli governments had advanced knowledge of the September 11 attacks.
8 Quotes by Amiri Baraka
- 1.
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
Amiri BarakaAfrican-American writer (1934-2014)
- 2.
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.
Amiri BarakaAfrican-American writer (1934-2014)
- 3.
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri BarakaAfrican-American writer (1934-2014)
- 4.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
Amiri BarakaAfrican-American writer (1934-2014)
- 5.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Amiri BarakaAfrican-American writer (1934-2014)
- 6.
There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
Amiri BarakaAfrican-American writer (1934-2014)
- 7.
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Amiri BarakaAfrican-American writer (1934-2014)
- 8.
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
Amiri BarakaAfrican-American writer (1934-2014)