or are honest with themselves, they have to acknowledge that Amiri Baraka has influenced their lives as well as their aesthetics. No matter how much we might agree or disagree with him, the man has been a barometer or scale by which we can measure whatever degree of blackness we are or wish to invent. No African American writer has touched our lives in such subtle as well as obvious ways. How can we talk about blues, jazz or poetry without mentioning his name?from E. Ethelbert Miller: E-Notes!: Well We Know Baraka Is Vetted
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