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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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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 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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God is man idealized.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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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 future is always here in the past
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What will be / the sacred words?
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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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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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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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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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In America, black is a country.
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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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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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A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
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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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