“He was all the way live, all the way conscious, turned all the way up, receiving and broadcasting, sometime so hard, what needed to, would back up from those two television tubes poking out of his head!”

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Date: December 20, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 27, Column 3; Book Review Desk
Byline: By Amiri Baraka

First of all, 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…

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