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God is man idealized.
Hope is delicate suffering.
An evil word it is/ This Love.
In America, black is a country.
What will be / the sacred words?
A man is either free or he is not.
The future is always here in the past
My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
There is no depth to education without art.
Back home the black women are all beautiful
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.
Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.
I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills
from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.
I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.
Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.
All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
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!