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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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Music Critic
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Newark
New Jersey
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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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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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.
Amiri Baraka
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
Amiri Baraka
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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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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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 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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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
Amiri Baraka
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
Amiri Baraka
Back home the black women are all beautiful
Amiri Baraka
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.
Amiri Baraka
Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.
Amiri Baraka
In America, black is a country.
Amiri Baraka
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.
Amiri Baraka
