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fuckyeahbeatniks:

Amiri Baraka at his home, 1959.

"You can write what you want to, and say what you think needs to be said, but in the end they’ll hit you back."

- Amiri Baraka, interview in Sampsonia Way, Sept. 2011.

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“You got to be a spirit. You can’t be no ghost.”
Amiri Baraka in Bulworth - my first exposure to him, and actually one of the reasons I discovered Naropa. His character in that movie is one of the most haunting I’ve ever seen.

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SO LOVING THIS.
thebeathotel:

Allen Ginsberg,William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso & Amiri Baraka