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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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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 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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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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 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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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