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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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 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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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.
Amiri Baraka
Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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There is no depth to education without art.
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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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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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Hope is delicate suffering.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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.
Amiri Baraka
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.
Amiri Baraka
Back home the black women are all beautiful
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
Amiri Baraka
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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