¤ Novelist/essayist Darius James, in his book «That’s Blaxploitation!» (St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995) recalled the impact of the Poets at their birth.
«In 1970 the Last Poets released their first album and dropped a bomb on black Amerikkka’s turntables. Muthafuckas ran f’cover. Nobody was ready. Had em scared o’ revolution. Scared o’ the whyte man’s god complex. […]