"To name something is to wait for it……" — Amiri Baraka
"To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass."
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39 Quotes by Amiri Baraka
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with…
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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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,…
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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In America, black is a country.
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Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
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The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since…
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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There is no depth to education without art.
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The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed…
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