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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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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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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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Hope is delicate suffering.
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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The future is always here in the past
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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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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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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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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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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