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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

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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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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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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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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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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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In America, black is a country.
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The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.
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There is no depth to education without art.
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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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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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