English 2367

"And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools."

When I think of the word #home,

native daughter: I am the Gulf Coast.

I tell you it was necessary: violence had to preface such beauty.

"I tried to find myself all night"

"My enemies ride jets to parties. They are not tied up in pens in Guantanamo Bay."

"Do you know anything about your people?

"He will tell you the distance between heartbreak and rage."

"Why would anyone leave their native land?"

"Though it is probably silver-colored the chain appears conveniently as the whitest element of the black-and-white"

"what we might have seen, if we had looked"

"the collective dream of the rich land and the violent wanting"

“until someone calls time and they’re done, and everything becomes what it was.”