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Amiri Baraka Quotes: I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
         

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.


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The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.



A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.



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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you



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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.



My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

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In America, black is a country.

In America, black is a country.



There is no depth to education without art.

There is no depth to education without art.



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 understand what art is.

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 understand what art is.



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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other



When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.





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