Amiri Baraka died, rip, great activist and human

[gwheezie]

2. A very generous human being

I was of course much younger and attended some writing classes at Rutgers in Newark, 40 or so years later I still remember him as being very interested and kind to me when we discussed poetry and activism, I was a teenager and was also living where Kawaida towers was being built and the demonstrations. He tolerated my youthful naive energy and encouraged me, it was a brief episode in my life but he was a very influential person that helped shape who I have become.