Amiri Baraka/1966-1980

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    Malcolm’s words
    fire darts, the victor’s tireless
    thrusts, words hung above the world
    change as it may, he said it, and
    for this he was killed,
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    Riding out
    from this town, to another, where
    it is also black.
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    his address
    to the grey monsters of the world,
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)