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- ↑ Daniel Fischlin; Ajay Heble; George Lipsitz (14 June 2013). The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation. Duke University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-8223-5478-9 . Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ↑ Aaron Winslow, "Amiri Baraka Interview", The Argotist Online.
- ↑ "The Cricket". Chimurenga Library. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ↑ Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, George Lipsitz, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation, Duke University Press, 2013, p. 103.
- ↑ "0158 The Cricket, [1969]. 56 frames." A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of The Black Power Movement - Part 1: Amiri Baraka from Black Arts to Black Radicalism (John H. Bracey Jr and Sharon Harley, eds).