Imamu Amiri Baraka

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“Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern & his undersea folk.
At 11, Let’s Pretend/& we did/& I, the poet, still do, Thank God!”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

“For all of him dead and
gone and vanished from us, and all of him which
clings to our speech black god of our time.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

“Nobody sings anymore.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

“the cluttered eyes
of early mysterious night.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

“I am a soul in the world: in
the world of my soul the whirled
light from the day
the sacked land
of my father.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)