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I don't know why people always compare me [ with amiri baraka] i was never part of the black arts repertory theater or the black arts movement; people who claim that i was are wrong. i was downtown. i was living in chelsea when they were operating in harlem.
-Ishmael Reed
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I Don't Know Why People Always Compare

Ishmael Reed
I don't know why people always compare me [ with amiri baraka] i was never part of the black arts repertory theater or the black arts movement; people who claim that i was are wrong. i was downtown. i was living in chelsea when they were operating in harlem.
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