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Amiri Baraka

Born

in Newark, New Jersey, The United States

October 07, 1934

Died

January 09, 2014

Website

http://www.amiribaraka.com/

Genre

Poetry, Theater, Nonfiction

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Poems and plays, such as Dutchman (1964), of American writer Amiri Baraka originally Everett LeRoi Jones focus on racial conflict.

He attended Barringer high school. Coyt Leverette Jones, his father, worked as a postal supervisor and lift operator. Anna Lois Russ Jones, his mother, worked as a social worker.

He studied at Rutgers, Columbia, and Howard universities but left without a degree and attended the new school for social research. He won a scholarship to Rutgers in 1951, but a continuing sense of cultural dislocation prompted him to transfer in 1952 to Howard. He studied philosophy and religion, major fields. Jones also served three years in the air force as a gunner. Jones continued his studies of comparative literature at Colum ...more

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	Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones by Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones 3.81 avg rating — 3,478 ratings — published 1964 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones (original published name) 4.16 avg rating — 2,495 ratings — published 1963 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Music 4.11 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 1966 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by Amiri Baraka, William J. Harris 4.28 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dutchman 3.39 avg rating — 441 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	S O S: Poems, 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka, Paul Vangelisti (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Lecturer 4.10 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1964 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note 4.17 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1961 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The System of Dante's Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) 3.99 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 1965 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of the Out and the Gone 3.57 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1967 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“And now each night, I count the stars.
And each night I get the same number.
And when the stars won't come to be counted,
I count the holes they leave.”
― LeRoi Jones

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“I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.”
― Amiri Baraka

tags: an-agony-as-now

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“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you”
― Amiri Baraka

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