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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
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Everett LeRoi Jones
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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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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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There is no depth to education without art.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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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.
Amiri Baraka
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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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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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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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.
Amiri Baraka
Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.
Amiri Baraka
Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
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