Amiri Baraka America Quotations

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

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.

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

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

In America, black is a country.