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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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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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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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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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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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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