Soul on fire: Amiri Baraka, Harlem, New York City. 1966
“Gifted poet, brilliant essayist, startling playwright
Amiri Baraka, who I knew as Leroi Jones in his youth,
has spent his life searching for the answers to the problems of African Americans — a search for systematic
answers to bedeviling questions. His quest led him
to Black Nationalism and, later, Scientific Socialism.”
