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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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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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If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
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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 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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I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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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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God is man idealized.
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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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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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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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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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The future is always here in the past
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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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In America, black is a country.
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Hope is delicate suffering.
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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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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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