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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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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
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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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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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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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A man is either free or he is not.
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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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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I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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Hope is delicate suffering.
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God is man idealized.
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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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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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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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There is no depth to education without art.
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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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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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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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