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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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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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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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A man is either free or he is not.
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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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Hope is delicate suffering.
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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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God is man idealized.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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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 future is always here in the past
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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In America, black is a country.
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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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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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