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Amiri Baraka
American
Poet
About the author
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,
American
Poet
#Art
#Thought
#Understanding
#Existence
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
Amiri Baraka,
American
Poet
#President
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,
American
Poet
#Family
#Facts
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,
American
Poet
#Enemy
#Government
#Slavery
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Amiri Baraka,
American
Poet
#God
#Respectability
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri Baraka,
American
Poet
#People
#Man
#Money
#Liberal
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Amiri Baraka,
American
Poet
#Freedom
#Man
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
Amiri Baraka,
American
Poet
#Will
#Name