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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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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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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
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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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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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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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& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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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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what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
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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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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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