from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship - Amiri Baraka

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I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

Amiri Baraka

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

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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.

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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Free, Freedom, Justice, Man, Men

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

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The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community. . . Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it. . . It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store. . . that’s the only way art can function naturally.

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The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

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I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

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To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most of the useful and respectable, qualifications. The character in which both the one and the other should be united and harmonised would seem to constitute the most perfect idea of human nature.

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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

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