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There is no depth to education without art.
Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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In America, black is a country.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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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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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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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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The future is always here in the past
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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What will be / the sacred words?
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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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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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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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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