Imamu Amiri Baraka Quote

The name change seemed fitting to me... and not just the meaning of the name Blessed Prince, but the idea that I was now literally being changed into a blacker being. I was discarding my "slave name" and embracing blackness.


The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones (1984)


The name change seemed fitting to me... and not just the meaning of the name Blessed Prince, but the idea that I was now literally being changed into ...

The name change seemed fitting to me... and not just the meaning of the name Blessed Prince, but the idea that I was now literally being changed into ...

The name change seemed fitting to me... and not just the meaning of the name Blessed Prince, but the idea that I was now literally being changed into ...

The name change seemed fitting to me... and not just the meaning of the name Blessed Prince, but the idea that I was now literally being changed into ...