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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
~ Amiri Baraka
Any
Apprenticeship
Cannot
Either
Free
Freedom
He
Man
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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
Liberal
Man
Me
Money
Other
People
Recently
Rich
Rich Man
Tells
Who
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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
~ Amiri Baraka
Air
Air Conditioning
Been
Conditioning
God
Has-Been
He
Over
Replaced
West
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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
Allowed
Armed
Buildings
Enemy
Exist
Flag
Fly
Government
Implies
Least
Legally
Over
Slavery
Still
Then
Threat
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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
Attacks
Bathroom
Could
Disturbing
Facts
Family
Floor
Hideous
Homes
Other
Our
See
Surround
Third
Which
Window
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This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
~ Amiri Baraka
Confederate
Counterfeit
Even
Flag
Mississippi
President
Said
Us
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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.
~ Amiri Baraka
Art
Even
Existence
Finally
Forces
Important
More
Process
Revere
Than
Thought
Understand
Understanding
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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
~ Amiri Baraka
Name
Pass
Place
Something
Think
Wait
Will
You
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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
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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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
Alas
America
Being
Errors
Impossible
Itself
Lies
Make
Merely
Power
Promise
Rather
Render
Sterile
Than
Which
Will
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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
America
American
Black
Bound
Country
Destinies
Lives
Much
Those
Up
White
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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
Art
Artist
Create
How
I Think
Ideology
Learn
Matter
Political
Think
You
Your
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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
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 always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
~ Amiri Baraka
Always
Blues
Jazz
Liked
Old
People
Race
Records
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I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.
~ Amiri Baraka
As Far As
Came
Certain
Communist
Concerned
Dead
Ends
Far
Found
Had
Having
I Came
Ideology
Marxist
Nationalism
Nationalist
Out
Reach
Result
Struggled
Theoretically
View
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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
African
Aware
Became
Changed
Name
Our
Question
Revolution
Roots
Whole
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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
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 had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
~ Amiri Baraka
Call
Fellowship
Had
Harlem
Literary
Little
Portable
Typewriter
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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
Air
Air Force
Been
Black
College
Crazy
Doing
Felt
Force
Getting
Had
Interested
Just
Like
Now
Out
Pursue
Repressive
Scene
Situations
Some
Something
States
Thought
United
United States
Wanted
Writer
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I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
~ Amiri Baraka
About
America
Before
Changed
Deeply
He
Malcolm
Met
Mind
Month
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Amiri Baraka
Profession
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BirthDate
07 October, 1934
DeathDate
09 January, 2014
Country
United States
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