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As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Art Artist Create How Ideology Learn Matter Political Think You Your I Think

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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Name Pass Place Something Think Wait Will You

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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.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Allowed Armed Buildings Enemy Exist Flag Fly Government Implies Least Legally Over Slavery Still Then Threat

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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.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Liberal Man Me Money Other People Recently Rich Rich Man Tells Who

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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: American Being Other Related Without You

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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.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: America Eisenhower Get Great Great Things Involved Mccarthyism Namely People Stuff Stupid Things Those Thought Wanted Wanting You

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It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Actually Closest Influenced Kind Know Me Natural People Projection Seems Should Some Who Writer You

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America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: America American Black Bound Country Destinies Lives Much Those Up White

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Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Country Lee Movement Part Spike

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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Air Air Conditioning Been Conditioning God He Over Replaced West

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 7th, 1934

Died: January 9th, 2014

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