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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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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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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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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.
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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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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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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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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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God is man idealized.
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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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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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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