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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
Critic
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New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
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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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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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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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 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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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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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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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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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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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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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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There is no depth to education without art.
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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