Baraka

Famous quotes containing the word baraka:

    his address
    to the grey monsters of the world,
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    I am a soul in the world: in
    the world of my soul the whirled
    light from the day
    the sacked land
    of my father.
    —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)