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I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: African Aware Became Changed Name Our Question Revolution Roots Whole

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You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Actually Change Changes Get Individual Infrastructure Long Make People Struggle Substantive System Who Willing You

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Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Could Desperately Forced Great Had He Him How Led Me Realize Realizing Self-Destruction Shocked Sick Sickness Society University Would

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I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Also Am American Because Bus Conscious Full Fully Know Life My Life Part People Say See Seeing Time Want I Am I See

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There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Also Analysis Certainly Condemnation Even Friend James Larger Measures Our Praise Should Will Writer

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Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies which will merely be America being itself rather than its unconvincing promise.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Alas America Being Errors Impossible Itself Lies Make Merely Power Promise Rather Render Sterile Than Which Will

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We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: American American Society Had Impact Malcolm Should Society Understand Whole

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Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: He Made Mao Revolution Revolutionary

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I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: Always Blues Jazz Liked Old People Race Records

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My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: About African America American Broader Culture Evolved Expect Find First Influence Kinds Much My Own Own Really Speech States Than Thing Thinking Thought Understood United United States Whole Would You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 7th, 1934

Died: January 9th, 2014

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