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The Afrocentric Exploration Of The Black Past Only Scratches The Surface. A Full Examination Of The Ancestry Of Those Who Are Referred To In The Newspapers As Blacks And African Americans Must Include Europe And Native America.

American Cultural Institutions Seem So Bent On Preserving The Values Of "western Civilization," The Mythical "whitetown," That Welearn About One Another's Cultures The Same Way We Learn About Sex: In The Streets.

Writing Poetry Is The Hard Manual Labor Of The Imagination.

I Get Most My Information About What's Happening In The United States From Reports And Studies, Which Are Often In Conflict With What You Read On The Editorial Pages, Or Handouts From Right Wing Institutions Like The American Enterprise Institute.

Free Enterprise Is Not A Bad Idea And Has Produced Art.