The activist and writer died at the age of 79 today.
Amiri Baraka, the poet, novelist, and activist once known as LeRoi Jones, has died at the age of 79.
Baraka was a native of Newark, N.J., and was poet l aureate of New Jersey from 2002–2003. He was as controversial as he was creative, and right or wrong, he was unquestionably integral to the black arts movement in America.
Here are some of the most insightful quotes from Baraka's career.
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"A man is either free, or he is not. There cannot be an apprenticeship for freedom."
—Home: Social Essays, 1966
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"Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle."
—Interview with 3:AM Magazine, 2009
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“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.”
—Home: Social Essays, 1966
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