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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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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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In America, black is a country.
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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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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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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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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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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God is man idealized.
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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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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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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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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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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Hope is delicate suffering.
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