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Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
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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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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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Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
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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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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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