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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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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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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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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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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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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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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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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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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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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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