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• And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.

  Amiri Baraka

  Stars, Night, Numbers

  Amiri Baraka, “Preface to a Twenty Volume SuICIDe Note”

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Thinking, Names, Waiting

  Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Hate, Eye, Looks

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Amiri Baraka

  People, Landscape, Ownership

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1966). “Home: Social Essays”, New York : Morrow

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

  Amiri Baraka

  People, Social, Cures

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Two, Different Experiences, World

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Related

  "Revolution song" by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2007.

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• A man is either free or he is not.

  Amiri Baraka

  Freedom, Men

  'Kulchur' Spring 1962 'Tokenism'

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• Back home the black women are all beautiful

  Amiri Baraka

  Beauty, Beautiful, Home

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1969). “Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art: Collected Poetry, 1961-1967”

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• God is man idealized.

  Amiri Baraka

  Men, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1966). “Home: Social Essays”, New York : Morrow

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• The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off.
  But that will not liberate Black people.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, People, Black

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1971). “Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays Since 1965”

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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

  Government, Enemy, Flags

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• what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

  Amiri Baraka

  Lost

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1975). “Three books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).”, Grove Pr

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Mean, Love Is, Evil

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.

  Amiri Baraka

  Atheist, Talking, People

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Syndromes, Tell Me You Love Me, Jew

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1969). “Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art: Collected Poetry, 1961-1967”

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• 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

  Father, Light, Land

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1975). “Three books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).”, Grove Pr

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Thinking, Fiction, Divinity

  "In Memory of Radio" l. 1 (1961)

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Men, White Man, Faces

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1966). “Home: Social Essays”, New York : Morrow

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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

  Money, Men, People

  Kulchur Spring 1962 "Tokenism"

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• 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

  Death, Dog, Envelopes

  "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" l. 1 (1961)

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• What will be / the sacred words?

  Amiri Baraka

  Sacred

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1979). “Selected poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones”, William Morrow &Company

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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

  Stupid, America, People

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• An evil word it is/ This Love.

  Amiri Baraka

  Evil

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