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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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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Newark
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.
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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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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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There is no depth to education without art.
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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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The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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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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