Amiri Baraka

& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#love #poems #poets #love

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#apprenticeship #cannot #either #free #freedom

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#air conditioning #been #conditioning #god #over

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 Baraka

#bathroom #could #disturbing #facts #family

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#man #me #money #other #people

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 Baraka

#even #existence #finally #forces #important

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#pass #place #something #think #wait

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#counterfeit #even #flag #legalized #mississippi