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Amiri Baraka Inspirational Quotes (48)

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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... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
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Hope is delicate suffering.
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What will be / the sacred words?
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If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
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In America, black is a country.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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The future is always here in the past
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James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.
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Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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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.
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Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.
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Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
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If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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