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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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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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God is man idealized.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
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I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.
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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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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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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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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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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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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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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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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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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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