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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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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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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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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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There is no depth to education without art.
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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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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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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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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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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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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God is man idealized.
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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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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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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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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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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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