Amiri Baraka Dead at 79 [courtesy nj.com]
“A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills.”
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea.
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Amiri Baraka Dead at 79 [courtesy nj.com]
“A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills.”
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 
An extraordinary radical and crucial to the success of the Black Arts Movement. His play Dutchman remains one of the most terrifying expose of race relations ever written.
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Absolutely! The first thing of his I ever read was Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, when I was in late elementary school.
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Am going to see if I can find “Blues People” at the library. I’ve never actually read Baraka, and it’s about time.
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The first time I read any of his work was in the anthology Black Voices, which was left-over from one my mom’s early 1970s college classes. I was maybe ten or eleven.
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I have enjoyed his writing for years.. The world got a little dimmer with his passing but his words live on!
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It did, indeed!
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