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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
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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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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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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James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
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