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There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Attacks Bathroom Could Disturbing Facts Family Floor Hideous Homes Other Our See Surround Third Which Window

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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.

~Amiri Baraka

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

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I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: About America Before Changed Deeply He Malcolm Met Mind Month

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I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Air Air Force Been Black College Crazy Doing Felt Force Getting Had Interested Just Like Middle-Class Now Out Pursue Repressive Scene Situations Some Something States Thought United United States Wanted Writer

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The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Experience Giving Immediacy Immediately Interested Poet Sense Someone Think You I Think

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'Griot' is a French word which means, you know, really, literally, 'cry.' You know, like the town crier. You know, they come in and say, you know, 'It's nine o'clock; everything is cool.' You know, 'President Bush is a fool.' I mean, stuff like that just to tell you. But for the kind of, the African thing is called djali.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: African Bush Come Cool Cry Everything Fool French Just Kind Know Like Literally Mean Means Nine President President Bush Really Say Stuff Tell Thing Town Which Word You

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I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Call Fellowship Had Harlem Literary Little Portable Typewriter

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The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Communist Done Going Grass His Howl Jeopardy Jersey Job Leaves Lost Major Myself Needs New New Jersey Poetry Poets Practise Prosecuted Put Suffered Think Way Whether Who Whose William Williams You Yourself I Think

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I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Grandfather Name

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My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's name was LeRoi, the French-ified aspect of it, because his first name was Coyette, you see. They come from South Carolina.

~Amiri Baraka

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 7th, 1934

Died: January 9th, 2014

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