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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'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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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 future is always here in the past
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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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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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.
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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 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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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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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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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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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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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.
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