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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
Responsibility
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Truth

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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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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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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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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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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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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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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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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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Hope is delicate suffering.
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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 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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Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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