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Let us go forth and do likewise in our own small ways.
03/26/09
I'm sad today, knowing that this beautiful, regal man is gone. It's like seeing an aged member of your family pass, and knowing that all your knowledge, history and personal connection to the distant past has quietly walked out the back door.
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I picked up Toni Morrison's latest and read it in nearly one sitting, then I went to find my Maya Angelous, Langston and James Baldwins again. Just need to feel my people again.
Also, another good historian of African American life, particularly of the Harlem Renaissance: Cheryl Wall of Rutgers University.
03/26/09
"Young lady, people are going to tell you that you can't. They will cite you odds of being published. They will feed your head with all sorts of nonsense of majoring in computers or business and to forget the written word. You give 'em hell. Whatever you end up doing in life, do with all you've got inside you."
Then I mumbled a thank you incoherently, and he laughed and shook my hand.
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RIP, great man.
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