Imamu Amiri Baraka

Imamu Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), also Amiri Braka in short, or LeRoi Jones, or Imamu Amear Baraka, was a US writer, poet, novelist, and dramatist. He advocated black self-awareness and nationalism, and later, Maoism-Marxism.

Wisdom & Quotes

• If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

- Black Is a Country, Home

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

- What Does Nonviolence Mean?, Home

• Hope is delicate suffering.

- Cold, Hurt, and Sorrow

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

Kofi Awoonor