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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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Journalist
Music Critic
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Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.
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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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James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
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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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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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A man is either free or he is not.
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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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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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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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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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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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What will be / the sacred words?
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The future is always here in the past
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