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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
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New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
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Everett LeRoi Jones
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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 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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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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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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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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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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