The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is โฆ political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.
Amiri BarakaA rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri BarakaAtheist Jews double crossers stole our [black peopleโs] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arabโs head.
Amiri Baraka