Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones
American Writer of Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Essays, and Music Criticism
"Life itself is the expression of evolution... Everything that exists is merely matter in motion. In the same way, perfection is always a temporary relative motion. Humanity is relative... We are at such a low expression of consciousness that we have not yet seriously studied ourselves... Development is circular... Everything is constantly moving at higher, faster, more refined, complex levels of being... We will be here as quantitative motion until we reach a state of motion that is qualitative, revolutionary. Then we will be somewhere else!"
"Hope is delicate suffering."
"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."
"The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time."