American - Poet | October 7, 1934 - January 9, 2014
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Amiri Baraka
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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.
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I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
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