<span>Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones) was African-American
writer whose main themes range from black liberation to white racism. In his
poem “Ka’ba” he states that only “sacred word” adequate to activate spells and
magic can save black people: “Correspondence with ourselves/ and our Black
family. We need magic/now we need the spells, to raise up/return, destroy,and
create. What will be/the sacred word?”</span>
