{"author":"Amiri Baraka","author_id":"Amiri+Baraka","total_quotes":6,"quotes":[{"text":"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.","author":"Amiri Baraka","tags":["man","free","apprenticeship "],"id":2034,"author_id":"Amiri+Baraka"},{"text":"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!","author":"Amiri Baraka","tags":["window","facts","see "],"id":21413,"author_id":"Amiri+Baraka"},{"text":"We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.","author":"Amiri Baraka","tags":["ambiguity","genius"],"id":350153,"author_id":"Amiri+Baraka"},{"text":"Let there be no love poems writtenUntil love can exist freely andCleanly.","author":"Amiri Baraka","tags":["justice","love"],"id":368492,"author_id":"Amiri+Baraka"},{"text":"\u0026 love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.","author":"Amiri Baraka","tags":["evil","love","poems","poets"],"id":378892,"author_id":"Amiri+Baraka"},{"text":"The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.","author":"Amiri Baraka","tags":["myself","job","yourself "],"id":427398,"author_id":"Amiri+Baraka"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}