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Hope is delicate suffering.

Amiri Baraka

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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
Delicate
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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A man is either free or he is not.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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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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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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