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Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
Critic
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Music Critic
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New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
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Everett LeRoi Jones
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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God is man idealized.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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The future is always here in the past
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There is no depth to education without art.
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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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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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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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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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