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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's name was LeRoi, the French-ified aspect of it, because his first name was Coyette, you see. They come from South Carolina.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.
- Nationalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies which will merely be America being itself rather than its unconvincing promise.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020