12 Quotes From The Late Amiri Baraka [View all]

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Amiri Baraka, the poet, novelist, and activist once known as LeRoi Jones, has died at the age of 79.


1. “A man is either free, or he is not. There cannot be an apprenticeship for freedom.”


2. “Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.”


3. “There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.”


4. “Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.”