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Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Music Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
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Smile
Dance
Extermination
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Syndromes
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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