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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

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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
Truth
Responsibility
Beauty

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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.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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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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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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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'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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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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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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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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