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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

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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
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
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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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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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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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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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In America, black is a country.
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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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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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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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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 rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
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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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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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 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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