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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Music Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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The future is always here in the past
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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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.
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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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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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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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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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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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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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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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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