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Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
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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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There is no depth to education without art.
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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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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I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
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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 landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
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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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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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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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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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