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Amiri Baraka quotes: Lately, I've become accustomed to the wayThe ground opens up and envelopes meEach time I go out to walk the dog.

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.

Amiri Baraka quotes: Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

Amiri Baraka quotes: The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people.

Amiri Baraka quotes: The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

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

Amiri Baraka quotes: The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Amiri Baraka quotes: A man is either free or he is not.

A man is either free or he is not.

Amiri Baraka quotes: Let there be no love poems writtenUntil love can exist freely andCleanly.

Let there be no love poems written
Until love can exist freely and
Cleanly.

Amiri Baraka quotes: Back home the black women are all beautiful

Back home the black women are all beautiful

Amiri Baraka quotes: I am a soul in the world: inthe world of my soul the whirledlight from the daythe sacked landof my father.

I am a soul in the world: in
the world of my soul the whirled
light from the day
the sacked land
of my father.

Amiri Baraka quotes: A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

Amiri Baraka quotes: You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

Amiri Baraka quotes: We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

Amiri Baraka quotes: Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Amiri Baraka quotes: Hope is delicate suffering.

Hope is delicate suffering.

Amiri Baraka quotes: & love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

Amiri Baraka quotes: In America, black is a country.

In America, black is a country.

Amiri Baraka quotes: To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Amiri Baraka quotes: There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

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

Amiri Baraka quotes: My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Amiri Baraka quotes: Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

Amiri Baraka quotes: This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

Amiri Baraka quotes: From the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

From the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

Amiri Baraka quotes: 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.

Amiri Baraka quotes: I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.

Amiri Baraka quotes: Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

Amiri Baraka quotes: 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!

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 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.

Amiri Baraka quotes: Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

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

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

Amiri Baraka quotes: There is no depth to education without art.

There is no depth to education without art.

Amiri Baraka quotes: The future is always here in the past

The future is always here in the past

Amiri Baraka quotes: What will be / the sacred words?

What will be / the sacred words?

Amiri Baraka quotes: Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank ...

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank ...

Amiri Baraka quotes: Hunting is not those heads on the wall

Hunting is not those heads on the wall

Amiri Baraka quotes: God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Amiri Baraka quotes: can't be rockefeller ... must be the devil

can't be rockefeller ... must be the devil

Amiri Baraka quotes: An evil word it is/ This Love,

An evil word it is/ This Love,

Amiri Baraka quotes: James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

Amiri Baraka quotes: What is lost because it is most preciouswhat is most precious because it is lost

What is lost because it is most precious
what is most precious because it is lost

Amiri Baraka quotes: You look like death eating a soda cracker.

You look like death eating a soda cracker.

Amiri Baraka quotes: A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Amiri Baraka quotes: Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Amiri Baraka quotes: God is man idealized.

God is man idealized.