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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Music Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
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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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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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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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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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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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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.
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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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