Art in an abstract setting is one thing, but art where you’re actually telling people to do things becomes dangerous…
— Amiri Baraka
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998)
When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher, but when I was saying, 'Black and white, unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly get to be unreasonable.
The Black Artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it. His role is to report and reflect so precisely the nature of the society, and of himself, in that society, that other men will be moved by the exactness of his rendering, and if they are black men, grow strong through this moving, having seen their own strength, and weakness, and if they are white men, tremble, curse, and go mad, because they will be drenched with the filth of their evil.
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