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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. - 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. - Amiri Baraka
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This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. - Amiri Baraka
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The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it. - Amiri Baraka
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I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.' - Amiri Baraka
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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
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Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor. - Amiri Baraka
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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
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Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country. - Amiri Baraka
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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. - Amiri Baraka
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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. - Amiri Baraka
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The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it. - Amiri Baraka
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. - Amiri Baraka
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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
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When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly become unreasonable. - Amiri Baraka
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