#quincytroupe

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Poet, journalist, editor, professor, & Miles Davis biographer, Quincy Troupe, here at a benefit for Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, New York City, October 28, 1990. [photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate]

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the other night the other brandysweetened night eye dreamt we was kissing so hard & good, you sucked my tongue right on out my trembling mouth & eye had to sew it back in in order to tell you about it -Quincy Troupe

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Toni Morrison, flanked by Quincy Troupe & and Stanley Diamond’s shoulder, at a benefit for Chinua Achebe, who’d just relocated to the US after a debilitating car accident in Lagos.   Other participants included Bill Moyers, Jayne Cortez, Amiri Baraka, Allen himself, along with Quincy Troupe, and Stanley Diamond.  Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 28, 1990 (photo snapped by Allen, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

Toni Morrison was born on this day in 1931 in Lorraine, Ohio, a steel-belt town along the shores of lake Erie. She would have been 90. Happy Birthday Toni! You are greatly missed!