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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ on Writing The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois

Well-Read Black Girl with Glory Edim

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I Love Miss Ratliffe

I first read tolstoy because he gave me tol stoy to readi was like 11 years old. My father had this deep baritoned voice, and he would transform when he would do these portry readings. There was just like a power. And so i had my litl journals, and i scribbled and all that. But there were moments where i realized, and this was going to soundst anged for a child, that my power was very disturbing to adults.

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