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[Unedited] Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Blackness, We Are Many Things

"I've always felt great freedom in the countless territories making up the realm of blackness. I am local in blackness, i am also distant, kin, indigenous and immigrant," he writes. "We are made to huddle together force by the feelings of rage, threat, exhaustion, disappointment and long suffering that swarm us in this nation." He adds: "It is that laughter, our laughter, that i cleave to. We revel in the depth and the flare and the belief and secrecy of blackness"

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