Let's make this birthday one to remember.

90 years old (Born on October 07, 1934)

Happy birthday to the brilliant Amiri Baraka! From penning dazzling poetry in *Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note*, to shaking up theater stages with the boundary-pushing play, *Dutchman*—you’ve certainly made literature your playground. Just remember: if life hands you lemons, at least it's better than getting trapped riding endlessly underground like Clay!

But wait, we can't forget those sharp-witted essays gathered in *Home: Social Essays* and your bold narrative journey through Dante’s Inferno reimagined in *The System of Dante's Hell*. On this special day, may your cake layers always stack taller than any twenty-volume note ever could. Cheers!