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I came to my Marxist view as ...

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 51 quotes

You have to start with slaver...

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

I'm trying to make the poems ...

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

The poet is someone, I think,...

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

Jimmy Baldwin was not only a ...

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 51 quotes

When I was saying, 'White peo...

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 51 quotes

Howard University shocked me ...

Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

If you are black, the only ro...

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

I'd say I'm a revolutionary o...

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

The African, because of the v...

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell ...

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

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

I am inside someone who hates...

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

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

& love is an evil word. Turn ...

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

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

I am inside someone who hates...

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

When I die, the consciousness...

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

Lately, I've become accustome...

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 51 quotes

The word “art” is something t...

The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... that’s the only way art can function naturally.

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

Thought is more important tha...

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 51 quotes

Art is a weapon in the strugg...

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

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

A system that warehouses peop...

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

Amiri Baraka 51 quotes

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