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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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Music Critic
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Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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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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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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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 future is always here in the past
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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.
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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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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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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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God is man idealized.
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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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