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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
Essayist
Journalist
Music Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
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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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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.
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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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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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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 torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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The future is always here in the past
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The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.
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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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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
Amiri Baraka
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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