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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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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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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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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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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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In America, black is a country.
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The future is always here in the past
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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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When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.
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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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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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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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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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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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A man is either free or he is not.
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