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In America, black is a country.

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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
Racism
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America
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The future is always here in the past
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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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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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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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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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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