Words for Amiri Baraka

From this amazing warrior writer  I learned the power and necessity of righteous anger and cultural expression in the struggle for freedom. It’s  been hard articulating my feelings about the death of Amiri Baraka. He was was a voice in the wilderness when I was trying to survive a white bread evangelical christian college in the hills of Pennsylvania, his words so sharp so powerful so unapologetic gave me the strength to speak truth to power for myself. So many poems so much love for African people for black people in America and the music me make. Its hard I’m sad like I knew the man. The man who wrote the praise of the Blues People and shouted Somebody Blew Up America will always be an inspiration and now as an ancestor  his words echo through our hearts keeping our feet to the fire.