There is no depth to education without art.

- Amiri Baraka

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

- Amiri Baraka

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

- Amiri Baraka

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

- Amiri Baraka

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

- Amiri Baraka

A man is either free or he is not.

- Amiri Baraka

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

- Amiri Baraka

The future is always here in the past

- Amiri Baraka

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

- Amiri Baraka