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Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
Critic
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New Jersey
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And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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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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The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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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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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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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In America, black is a country.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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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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Hope is delicate suffering.
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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