Baraka

Famous quotes containing the word baraka:

    Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern & his undersea folk.
    At 11, Let’s Pretend/& we did/& I, the poet, still do, Thank God!
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    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)