Amiri Baraka Quotes

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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.
• A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
• 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…
• The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
• The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
• In America, black is a country.
• Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
• The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even…
• Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
• Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
• There is no depth to education without art.
• To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
• The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex…
• Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
• 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…
• An evil word it is/ This Love,
• Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . .…
• Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
• Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank...
• What will be / the sacred words?

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