Imamu Amiri Baraka

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    The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    I am inside someone
    who hates me.
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
    Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    Kind
    death. O
    my dark and sultry
    love.
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    Love is an evil word.
    Turn it backwards/ see, what I mean?
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)