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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
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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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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There is no depth to education without art.
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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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.
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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'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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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.
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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 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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God is man idealized.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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In America, black is a country.
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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.
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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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