Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 07. Oktober 1934 |
Geburtsort | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture. |
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
