Previous Post > People can't accept that he's dead. I presume you're speaking figuratively, but even so that's hardly accurate Hudlin. As a writer he's hardly tapped out. But as a man, he's clear shown that he's sick and tired of the institutions he has to put up with to get published. As the first African American writer, he functionally opened the door for others and took plenty of career hits because of it. It's a shame that one later writer who benefited from Priest's work, deliberately tried to do away with Priest's biggest writing legacy.

> > People can't accept that he's dead.
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> I presume you're speaking figuratively, but even so that's hardly accurate Hudlin. As a writer he's hardly tapped out. But as a man, he's clear shown that he's sick and tired of the institutions he has to put up with to get published.
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> As the first African American writer, he functionally opened the door for others and took plenty of career hits because of it. It's a shame that one later writer who benefited from Priest's work, deliberately tried to do away with Priest's biggest writing legacy.