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My name is Ben Ali Lumumba, and I'm free, Black and twenty-three. Okay, Lumumba is my given name. Dig. The only name I gave myself, that is.

John Oliver Killens

The "Negro Problem" and the "White Man's Burden" are historical misnomers.. The Black Man's Burden, simply stated, was slavery and colonialism.

John Oliver Killens

There is no such thing as art for art's sake. All art is propaganda, although there is much propaganda that is not art.

John Oliver Killens

John Oliver Killens

John Oliver Killens

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Born: January 14, 1916

Died: October 27, 1987 (aged 71)

Bio: John Oliver Killens was an American fiction writer from Georgia who wrote novels on African-American life.

Known for:

And then we heard the thunder (1962)
Great Black Russian
Youngblood (1954)

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