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Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: American Before Contemporary Could Created Creator Dig Each Even Feeling He Higher Jimmy Make Other Sense Speak Speech Unimaginable

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Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.

~Amiri Baraka

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 7th, 1934

Died: January 9th, 2014

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