In his introduction to Home: Social Essays (1965), Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) announces that his pieces illustrate his movement into a blacker selfhood. One of the great proclamations of his blacker self arrived in his Black Arts anthem, the poem, “Black Art” (1967/68)
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"There are many ways that our mind protects us from present and past horrors. One way is by allowing us to forget. Forgetting is a constant fear in any writer's life. For the immigrant writer, far from home, memory becomes an even deeper abyss.""Daughters of Memory" -- E. Danticat
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