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.
There is no depth to education without art. - Amiri Baraka
There is no depth to education without art.
- Amiri Baraka
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured - Amiri Baraka
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. - Amiri Baraka
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human. - Amiri Baraka
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills - Amiri Baraka
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world. - Amiri Baraka
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
A man is either free or he is not. - Amiri Baraka
A man is either free or he is not.
My responsibility is to truth and beauty. - Amiri Baraka
My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
The future is always here in the past - Amiri Baraka
The future is always here in the past
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