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Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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Imamu Amear Baraka
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.
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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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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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God is man idealized.
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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