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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
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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 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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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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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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I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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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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There is no depth to education without art.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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God is man idealized.
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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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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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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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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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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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A man is either free or he is not.
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