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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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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God is man idealized.
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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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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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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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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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Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
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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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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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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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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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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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Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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