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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.
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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In America, black is a country.
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
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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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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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I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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God is man idealized.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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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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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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