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🎂 Amiri Baraka - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday
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| Popular As |
Amiri Baraka |
| Occupation |
Poet |
| Age |
90 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
| Born |
October 7, 1934 (Newark, NJ) |
| Birthday |
October 7 |
| Town/City |
Newark, NJ |
| Nationality |
NJ |
🌙 Zodiac
Amiri Baraka’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs
Amiri Baraka was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
About
African-American poet, critic, and dramatist known for works such as Blues People: Negro Music in White America (nonfiction), The System of Dante's Hell (fiction), A Black Mass (drama), and Slave Ship (poems). He served as Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2002-2003.
Before Fame
He attended Rutgers University and Columbia University. He published his first poetic work, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, in 1961.
Trivia
His 2006 fiction work, Tales of the Out and the Gone, received the PEN Open Book Award in 2008.
Family Life
He had two daughters with writer Hettie Cohen. With his second wife, Amina Baraka (born Sylvia Robinson), he had seven more children.
Associated With
He appeared in Bulworth, a 1998 film that starred Warren Beatty as Senator Jay Billington Bulworth.
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