page 194 Keorapetse Kgositsile, "The Awakening", in LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, Black Fire (New York : Morrow, 1968), pp. 226-7 "Amidst sit-ins, kneel-ins, sleep-ins and mass mis-education Brother Malcolm's voice is penetrated alienated bloodcells Teaching Black manhood in Harlem USA Endorsing "Bandung," Retrieving Black balls cowering in glib Uncle Tomism Forcing me to grow up ten feet tall and Black My crotch too high For the pedestal of Greco-Roman Anglo-Saxon adolescent Fascist myth. Now I see everything against a Black background As Black and proud as Melba Breaking the blood-dripping icons of Western congenital chicanery Enthralling me like the cataract of a cosmic orgasm.