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How to Come Home to Yourself | Arielle Estoria

Good Life Project

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Human Is a Poem That Shakes My Heart

I wrote Human in 2016 and it was the first time I'd written a poem to express what it felt like being a black woman. And that's the only poem I probably have never memorized just because like you, I love how you described that as an exorcism. It very much so was. I think every time I performed it, I've sobbed. So it's a poem that I can't leave on my heart a whole lot. But it is a poem that still shakes me quite a bit.

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