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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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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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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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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 future is always here in the past
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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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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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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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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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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