“I think human beings have to deal with a lot of weird things regardless of race/class/gender; and a lot of things that are like terrifying. So as an artist I just want to explore these things.” Kiese Laymon talks to Writers Voices about his new memoir – Heavy, an American memoir. ” My mom just really believed you could read and write your way to freedom and if you were black in Mississippi, she thought you could read and write your way into a space that protected your from white supremacy.”
You don’t have to be precious with the words, you don’t have to think it’s good just because you wrote it.
Here’s to kind women and caring men, may we know them, may we raise them, may we be them.
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