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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Flag
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Griot' is a French word which means, you know, really, literally, 'cry.' You know, like the town crier. You know, they come in and say, you know, 'It's nine o'clock; everything is cool.' You know, 'President Bush is a fool.' I mean, stuff like that just to tell you. But for the kind of, the African thing is called djali.
- Fellowship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020