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

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Source : 'Kulchur' Spring 1962 'Tokenism'

Amiri Baraka

#Men Quotes #Justice Quotes #Social Justice Quotes

“Never use two words when one will do.”
“I try to eat fruit and be healthy.”
“Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.”
“There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.”
“If your body is crying out for a change, or crying out that it's unhappy, for goodness sake listen to it. Our bodies aren't machines that get by with a grease and oil change every 50,000 kilometres. Stress is part of life but if prolonged stress is in our life, we have to ask ourselves if we are in the right place, right frame of mind, or doing the right job.”
“I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.”
“I think that the movement is weak in Zimbabwe, much weaker than it is in Italy for example, much weaker than it is in Spain, much weaker than it is even in Germany, although there the groups are small they are very vociferous and you get them speaking loudly and organising.”

Source : Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org
“I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.”

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