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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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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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.
Amiri Baraka
The future is always here in the past
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A man is either free or he is not.
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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.
Amiri Baraka
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.
Amiri Baraka
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 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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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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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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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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There is no depth to education without art.
Amiri Baraka
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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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.
Amiri Baraka
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.
Amiri Baraka
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.
Amiri Baraka
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Amiri Baraka