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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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Music Critic
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New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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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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Hope is delicate suffering.
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The future is always here in the past
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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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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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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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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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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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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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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