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T'A.tsLE OF CONTENITS INTRODUCTION........... By WaY of Introduction lll :il I DESPAIR... THE SOUL OF THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY Some Others ....."""" "" 3 o \Vhat Form Do Demons Take? """"' 4 Copyright 1981 Julian Richardson Associates, publishers Song of Thirst 6 No One is PrePared to Melt l Published by () A Thought. Julian Richardson Associates, Publishers Day and NiCht,\Tinter and Summer IO for Members of the Black Liberation Army II ANGER..... l2 Death So Near ISBN 0-910758-01-11 r) Dragon/Fire r4 All rights reserved Steve Biko. r6 Untitled r7 Printed in the United States of America A Challenge r8 Seeds......... r9 Chance.... '. ' The Sign of the Times 2T Untitled Poem...'....'... 22 23 HATE A Farewell to Another Level""' 24 A Paradoxical ResPonse z6 2f Encounter Beyond the Looking Glass \War z8 ,o A Curse on You.....'. Credo 3o We'se Steppin'-straight Ahead 32 Concrete Jungle Revolution' " "' a4 PITY.......... 37 Target Zone ......'... 38 Tain't Natural..'.'...'....'. 4o 4r Live............ A Civil Rights Escape from the Ghetto 42 T'A.tsLE OF CONTENITS INTRODUCTION........... By WaY of Introduction lll :il I DESPAIR... THE SOUL OF THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY Some Others ....."""" "" 3 o \Vhat Form Do Demons Take? """"' 4 Copyright 1981 Julian Richardson Associates, publishers Song of Thirst 6 No One is PrePared to Melt l Published by () A Thought. Julian Richardson Associates, Publishers Day and NiCht,\Tinter and Summer IO for Members of the Black Liberation Army II ANGER..... l2 Death So Near ISBN 0-910758-01-11 r) Dragon/Fire r4 All rights reserved Steve Biko. r6 Untitled r7 Printed in the United States of America A Challenge r8 Seeds......... r9 Chance.... '. ' The Sign of the Times 2T Untitled Poem...'....'... 22 23 HATE A Farewell to Another Level""' 24 A Paradoxical ResPonse z6 2f Encounter Beyond the Looking Glass \War z8 ,o A Curse on You.....'. Credo 3o We'se Steppin'-straight Ahead 32 Concrete Jungle Revolution' " "' a4 PITY.......... 37 Target Zone ......'... 38 Tain't Natural..'.'...'....'. 4o 4r Live............ A Civil Rights Escape from the Ghetto 42 INTRODUCTION Sittin'-watchin u play 43 fr"Tifhleln epssi"etn,c et aokfin wg ritipnigtt tpttoee itnry y oisu ar mruitnhdle sasn dp pearsinotninagl hthoante psitcyt'u nreo Endangered Species.... 44 " TShpaec eC eOlldyssey............ 45 forI to tihse ersx twreitmh ewlyo rhdasr'd to write the introduction to this book of Untitled ar6 -^prrv-that is why the precedin gparagraphis there-to remind me 48 i, p.rronal honesty to capsulize for you" what this "riitr"--rhl.r, LOLeVipkEiec.s .n....o....... ..3..9.. .............. 45592r b,iooIontk ai sisr a- aynb .ao"t utBet'mefpotr tt ow eex gPoo saen yy ofuur tthoe trh we e" Saroeu gl ooinf gth teo Bhlaavcek toL icboemrae- That \X/hich Is Shared.... to griPs with the terms we are using: 53 A Love Poem......... 54 For our purposes "Soul" will be defined as: Blackness... 55 "the immaterial essence of an indiVidual The Circle: Joe's Poem. j6 life; the spiritual principle embodied The Blood of Life......... :8 in human beings in the universe; an actlve An Open Letter to my Comrade..... 59 or essential Part; man's moral and i can visualize ............... 6o emotional nature." For the Shule Ya Mapinduze No. r 6r Invariably, when the American media condescends to write or F"\Wore t hKen oSwhu lteh eY Ea mMbarpyion doufz Fer eNedoo. mz 66zt ,gp'u"ungt tu,"Utto rdr,e tvhoei dB oLfA h iut mdeapni cftese ilitn agss a agnrdo uepm ooft imonasra'uding thugs and lJnritlcd 6s "Emotions-Both'emotion' and'motivation' REACHING OUT........... 6t come from the same Latin word meaning Untitled Poem............... 68 'motion'or'to move" Emotions are The Inclian Voice .......... 6q 'stirred up movements' or'stirred up feelings''" Prospecting Life............. 7o The BIack Liberation Army is "The Peoples' Army"'What exactly Prison is a Paper Barrier 7r does that mean? lt means that the first ob jective of the BLA is to -.., ,ft. needs of the people' At this time one of the most pressing A Final \7ord /5 needs of the people i, io huu" a correct understanding of the forces that make up the BLA' The people need to know that the rnembers Pictures & Prisons. of the BLA are first of all httman beings' Then they need to know 75 that as human beings they have a moral and emotional nature that when stirred up give way to intense feelings such as love' hate' J"rfuir, i"tt like any other human being' This book is an effo"rr,tg etor ^sh.toJwp tih,avt ' Then, too' throughout this book,through rhe strains of the poetry another quality becomes inherently appar- ent-not by design, U,,i Uv simply that this book is written by BLA members-th. qrruf*v of'qttiei determination-it is never yelled' tft""r"a or flaunied, but always readily discernible' INTRODUCTION Sittin'-watchin u play 43 fr"Tifhleln epssi"etn,c et aokfin wg ritipnigtt tpttoee itnry y oisu ar mruitnhdle sasn dp pearsinotninagl hthoante psitcyt'u nreo Endangered Species.... 44 " TShpaec eC eOlldyssey............ 45 forI to tihse ersx twreitmh ewlyo rhdasr'd to write the introduction to this book of Untitled ar6 -^prrv-that is why the precedin gparagraphis there-to remind me 48 i, p.rronal honesty to capsulize for you" what this "riitr"--rhl.r, LOLeVipkEiec.s .n....o....... ..3..9.. .............. 45592r b,iooIontk ai sisr a- aynb .ao"t utBet'mefpotr tt ow eex gPoo saen yy ofuur tthoe trh we e" Saroeu gl ooinf gth teo Bhlaavcek toL icboemrae- That \X/hich Is Shared.... to griPs with the terms we are using: 53 A Love Poem......... 54 For our purposes "Soul" will be defined as: Blackness... 55 "the immaterial essence of an indiVidual The Circle: Joe's Poem. j6 life; the spiritual principle embodied The Blood of Life......... :8 in human beings in the universe; an actlve An Open Letter to my Comrade..... 59 or essential Part; man's moral and i can visualize ............... 6o emotional nature." For the Shule Ya Mapinduze No. r 6r Invariably, when the American media condescends to write or F"\Wore t hKen oSwhu lteh eY Ea mMbarpyion doufz Fer eNedoo. mz 66zt ,gp'u"ungt tu,"Utto rdr,e tvhoei dB oLfA h iut mdeapni cftese ilitn agss a agnrdo uepm ooft imonasra'uding thugs and lJnritlcd 6s "Emotions-Both'emotion' and'motivation' REACHING OUT........... 6t come from the same Latin word meaning Untitled Poem............... 68 'motion'or'to move" Emotions are The Inclian Voice .......... 6q 'stirred up movements' or'stirred up feelings''" Prospecting Life............. 7o The BIack Liberation Army is "The Peoples' Army"'What exactly Prison is a Paper Barrier 7r does that mean? lt means that the first ob jective of the BLA is to -.., ,ft. needs of the people' At this time one of the most pressing A Final \7ord /5 needs of the people i, io huu" a correct understanding of the forces that make up the BLA' The people need to know that the rnembers Pictures & Prisons. of the BLA are first of all httman beings' Then they need to know 75 that as human beings they have a moral and emotional nature that when stirred up give way to intense feelings such as love' hate' J"rfuir, i"tt like any other human being' This book is an effo"rr,tg etor ^sh.toJwp tih,avt ' Then, too' throughout this book,through rhe strains of the poetry another quality becomes inherently appar- ent-not by design, U,,i Uv simply that this book is written by BLA members-th. qrruf*v of'qttiei determination-it is never yelled' tft""r"a or flaunied, but always readily discernible' By WaY of Introduction theT hseec t"iSonosu l aoref trheep rBesLeAn"ta itsiv ber ookf ethne d mowajno ri notvoe srrixid isnegc tifoenesli.n gFsiv eth oatf \7ho are You, I am asked mseackteio nu pi sth een "tiimtlemda te"Rrieaal cehsisnegn cOe"u ot"f eaancdh iinsd tihviedruea lb elifcea.u Tseh ei ts iwxaths ltftl goinvley atenllasr wnehat I am called impossible to leave it out. This section represents a growth and Having had manY names development in the liberation struggle in America-ro the point It still does not saY where we recognize rhar Black, \White, puerto Rican, Chicano, lVho nor what I am Nanadt ioveur sA mis ear iccoamn,m Aonsi asntr,u sg7ghle4 1tosy rsi1d- vth/ee whaovreld ao cf ormacmisomn, coapppirteaslissomr Tioo t,hfte" oopppprer"ststoedt II aamm tthhee aannggeell ooff ddeeslivtreurcatniocne and imperialism so that we can live together as human beings. Finally, at the time of this wriring, all the contributors were So who I am dePends on who You are' ' ' Prisoners of \War, some confined within the United States penal system and a few abroad. Even though they were physically confined Nuh QaYYum they were still actively engaged in srruggle-to free your minds from 8-zz-7 5 the gross misinterpretation of the BLA engendered by the misinfor- mation fed to you by the governmenr's media. By WaY of Introduction theT hseec t"iSonosu l aoref trheep rBesLeAn"ta itsiv ber ookf ethne d mowajno ri notvoe srrixid isnegc tifoenesli.n gFsiv eth oatf \7ho are You, I am asked mseackteio nu pi sth een "tiimtlemda te"Rrieaal cehsisnegn cOe"u ot"f eaancdh iinsd tihviedruea lb elifcea.u Tseh ei ts iwxaths ltftl goinvley atenllasr wnehat I am called impossible to leave it out. This section represents a growth and Having had manY names development in the liberation struggle in America-ro the point It still does not saY where we recognize rhar Black, \White, puerto Rican, Chicano, lVho nor what I am Nanadt ioveur sA mis ear iccoamn,m Aonsi asntr,u sg7ghle4 1tosy rsi1d- vth/ee whaovreld ao cf ormacmisomn, coapppirteaslissomr Tioo t,hfte" oopppprer"ststoedt II aamm tthhee aannggeell ooff ddeeslivtreurcatniocne and imperialism so that we can live together as human beings. Finally, at the time of this wriring, all the contributors were So who I am dePends on who You are' ' ' Prisoners of \War, some confined within the United States penal system and a few abroad. Even though they were physically confined Nuh QaYYum they were still actively engaged in srruggle-to free your minds from 8-zz-7 5 the gross misinterpretation of the BLA engendered by the misinfor- mation fed to you by the governmenr's media. 2 ^IHE SOUL OF THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY DESPAIR 3 Some Others Dream) it has been rekindled in ourselves as human beings. Some people come and staY There are still momenrs, hours, days of despair for us though_ Others last not even a daY when we look at the senseless destruction of rhe elements around us, the waste of human lives, the miscarriages and blatant lack of Some step stride for stride justice, rhe waste of time while we rot in cages. . . never asking the reason whY FROM DESPAIR GRO\TS DETERMINATION. . . Others request the full plans beforehand! Then turn away in dismay desiring a road map in detail, for whatever reasons some need reassurance at every turn waiver, yet always carry on others drop, stop back-up, haul ass or sell Go to helll Vhen taking flight try as they might it's impossible to flee with dignity. Living demands a pact with the dead' Bearingsl Straight Ahead! Sundiata Acoli TSP r-a-78