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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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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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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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I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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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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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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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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Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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