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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
Critic
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Music Critic
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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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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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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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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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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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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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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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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What will be / the sacred words?
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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.
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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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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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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