American - Poet | October 7, 1934 - January 9, 2014
Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.
Amiri Baraka
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We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.
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Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.
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I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
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Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.
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Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.
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