Амири Барака цитаты

Лерой Джонс — афроамериканский поэт, писатель, эссеист и критик, один из представителей битничества. Преподаватель нескольких университетов США. В 1989 получил награду American Book Awards. Входит в «сотню величайших афроамериканцев» Молефи Асанте. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Октябрь 1934 – 9. Январь 2014
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Амири Барака: Цитаты на английском языке

“I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with — … namely America…”

On his bohemian status in “Remembering Activist Poet Amiri Baraka” https://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261379770/fresh-air-remembers-activist-poet-amiri-baraka in NPR (2014 Jan 10)

“Art in an abstract setting is one thing, but art where you’re actually telling people to do things becomes dangerous…”

On how art might turn “dangerous” if it becomes too political in “In Memoriam: An Interview with the Late Amiri Baraka” https://www.sampsoniaway.org/interviews/2014/01/10/in-memoriam-an-interview-with-the-late-amiri-baraka/ in Sampsonia Way (2014 Jan 10)

“One of the most persistent traits of of the Western white man has always been his fanatical and almost instinctive assumption that his systems and ideas about the world are the most desirable, and further that people who do not aspire to to them, or at least think them admirable, are savages or enemies.”

Amiri Baraka книга Blues People

The idea that Western thought might be exotic if viewed from another landscape never presents itself to most Westerners.
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963), p. 8