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• Amiri Baraka:

  The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the wo

• Amiri Baraka:

  My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people

• Amiri Baraka:

  I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

• Amiri Baraka:

  The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came t

• Amiri Baraka:

  I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy

• Amiri Baraka:

  The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you

• Amiri Baraka:

  It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be so

• Amiri Baraka:

  'Griot' is a French word which means, you know, really, literally, 'cry.' You know, like the town c

• Amiri Baraka:

  I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

• Amiri Baraka:

  The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves