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A man is either free or he is not.

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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
Critic
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Journalist
Music Critic
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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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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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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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What will be / the sacred words?
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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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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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Hope is delicate suffering.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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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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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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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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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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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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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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In America, black is a country.
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