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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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Music Critic
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Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
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Everett LeRoi Jones
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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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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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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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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
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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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The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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God is man idealized.
Amiri Baraka
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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