12 Quotes From The Late Amiri Baraka

[xchrom]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tracyclayton/quotes-from-the-late-amiri-baraka

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.”

[El_Johns]

1. RIP

[Bluenorthwest]

2. More quotes.

"I am not saying 'Let the State fuck its faggots,' only that no fag go unfucked, for purely impersonal reasons.” From his poem 'Hagel'

" "Most American white men are trained to be fags, their faces are weak and blank... that red flush, those silk blue faggot eyes.”

I was never able to read much of his work because it is so filled with the word 'faggot'.

[xchrom]

3. oh i always really liked him.

he's harsh and offensive -- but i see him in a discourse with masculinity.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. He was a closeted gay man who spewed venom at gay people

A very dishonest and hypocritical man. His own autobiography excluded his own gay history while attacking 'faggots' with venom.
I can understand your point but I just don't agree. He was a sad, sad man. I heard him read once. He made me sad.