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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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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
Critic
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New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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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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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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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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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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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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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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