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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
Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Music Critic
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Playwright
Poet
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Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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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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I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.
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In America, black is a country.
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