Famous quotes containing the word baraka:
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Nobody sings anymore.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“his address
to the grey monsters of the world,”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)