Imamu Amiri Baraka

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.

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

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

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

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

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