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

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The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.
-- Amiri Baraka

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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.
-- Amiri Baraka

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The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
-- Amiri Baraka

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The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people.

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