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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.
Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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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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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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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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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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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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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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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
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The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.
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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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In America, black is a country.
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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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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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