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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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A man is either free or he is not.
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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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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'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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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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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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 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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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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I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
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