Amiri Baraka

  • Sisters mine, beloveds those bones are not my child. I am a woman at point zero; unburnable. The wind done gone into a dark alliance forged from the devil’s pulpit. Daughters of the Sun, Women of the Moon a mercy, please. Let’s make dust tracks and leave the dilemma of this ghost to those who…

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  • The quote below is excerpted from an interview Kalamu ya Salaam did with Amiri Baraka. ya Salaam: It’s one thing to have that sense, and it’s another thing to have the technical facility to put that sensibility on the page. Baraka: Practice. Practice. Practice. I think that’s the only thing you can do. Like my grandmother said,…

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