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God is man idealized.

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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
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Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
Idealized
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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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A man is either free or he is not.
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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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If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
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Hope is delicate suffering.
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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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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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James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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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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I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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