Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Imamu Amiri Baraka

Born: October 7, 1934
Died: January 9, 2014 (aged 79)
Bio: Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.
Known for:
- Blues People (1963)
- Somebody blew up America, & other poems (2003)
- The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader (1991)
- The autobiography of LeRoi Jones (1984)
- Tales of the Out & the Gone (2007)