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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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The future is always here in the past
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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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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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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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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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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There is no depth to education without art.
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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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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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