Barry Michael Cooper

“To the ruling class, Larry Davis is society's nightmare, a horror-film monster who keeps coming back every time you think you’ve put him away for good. But to the powerless, Davis is a resistance fighter ... ”

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“These transcontinental urban griots echo the de­spair, pain, and anger of the South Bronx and Harlem (the world's two major rap centers), which a lot of the cool-jerk white liberals and b.s. black bourgeoisie don't want to hear.”

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“Detroit is a city whose horror reaches cinematic proportions, like ‘The Living Dead Wear Kangols and Filas.’ However you like your chiller theater, Detroit is the worst because it’s real.”

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Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius

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“In the ’80s, it was ‘Morning in America’ and we woke up to find that our night­mares were real: it became the Decade of the Quick and the Dead.”

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