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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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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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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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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 future is always here in the past
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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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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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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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James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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A man is either free or he is not.
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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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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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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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There is no depth to education without art.
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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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