God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
From Amiri Baraka
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
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!
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.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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.
I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
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.
You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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