Categories poet reading Staggerlee wonders Post author By Kirby Post date June 3, 2020 1 Comment on Staggerlee wonders View this post on Instagram "I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only." – James Baldwin #jamesbaldwin via oldmasc A post shared by John Webster (@sissydude) on Jun 2, 2020 at 5:12pm PDT see also: On Language, Race and the Black Writer If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? Staggerlee wonders On Being White and Other Lies Share this:TwitterFacebookTumblrPinterestPrintEmailLike this:Like Loading... Tags jamesbaldwin By Kirby Poet. Book Fairy. Publisher knife | fork | book View Archive → ← Feast → Orange One reply on “Staggerlee wonders” Thank you for this, Kirby. I use this poem, plus several other Baldwin works, in one of my courses at the UofT. I love this poem, have done so for decades. Al LikeLike Leave a Reply to Albert F. Moritz Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Thank you for this, Kirby. I use this poem, plus several other Baldwin works, in one of my courses at the UofT. I love this poem, have done so for decades. Al LikeLike
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Thank you for this, Kirby. I use this poem, plus several other Baldwin works, in one of my courses at the UofT. I love this poem, have done so for decades.
Al
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