The death of Malcolm X solidified his hate for whites. That same year in Harlem, he founded the Black Arts theatre/school the plays were made for blacks only and very rarely contained white critics opinons. (Discovering Authors).

             Baraka earned praise and respect for his collection of poems "Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note." which included "Babylon Revisited" and "Incident" which were just some of his more controversial poems(Discovering Authors). This is an excerpt from "Babylon Revisited": .

             "This bitch killed a friend of mine named Bob Thompson .

             a black painter, a giant, once, she reduced.

             to a pitiful imitation faggot.

             full of American holes and a monkey on his back .

             slapped airplanes from the Empire State Building.

             May this bitch and her sisters, all of them,.

             Receive my words.

             In all their orifices like lye mixed.

             Cocola and alaga syrup.

             Feel this shit, bitches, feel it, now laugh your.

             Hysterectic laughs .

             While your flesh burns.

             And your eyes peel to red mud"(www.cs.berkely.edu/).

             This poem shows just how much hatred he had for whites and it also showed how he dealt with racism and homosexuality. After these poems he got his first play produced which was "Dante" the play was respected by other black poets but never had a big impact outside of Harlem. His next play was "Baptism" described to be a surrealist imagination. After "Baptism" he produced a couple of his more notable plays such as "The Toilet" and "The Slave" which were mainly focused on homosexuality in adolescence and the racism that they faced(Discovering Authors). His next play "The Slave" was focused on a confrontation of a black poet with a white woman, some critics have said that this play was actually based on Baraka"s earlier life when he was married to Cohen. His next play was his greatest piece of work which was named "Dutchman" it was about a white woman named Lula who makes fun of a Black man for trying to be white.