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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.

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

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

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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:
  1. And then we heard the thunder (1962)
  2. Great Black Russian
  3. Youngblood (1954)

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