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Khadijah Queen
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in The United States
June 13
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Modeling Exile & Return
Poem: “Ethics“ by Linda Pastan
Song: “Free” by Deniece Williams
I got my first gray hair at the age of twelve. Several others joined it, making a small white patch in the back of my head, when I was in my twenties. I didn’t pull them out; they didn’t bother me. I knew that I’d gray early. My father had done the same, a full head of salt and pepper hair in curly waves that he often wore pulled back i
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I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
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2017
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Anodyne
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2020
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran's Memoir
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Black Peculiar
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2011
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Fearful Beloved
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Non-Sequitur
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Conduit
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2008
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I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
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2013
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Exercises in Painting Queen
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2016
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Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions
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2023
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“we are left
together on this side of unknowing, stack like throwing bricks
all the finite seasons we have
& will spend without them.”
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together on this side of unknowing, stack like throwing bricks
all the finite seasons we have
& will spend without them.”
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“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.”
― Libro del desasosiego
― Libro del desasosiego
“I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.”
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