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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
Essayist
Journalist
Music Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
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People
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Films

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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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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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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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Hope is delicate suffering.
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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 whatever makes you proud to be human.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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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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If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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The future is always here in the past
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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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