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Khadijah Queen

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Khadijah Queen is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including Anodyne (Tin House 2020), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2025 the Foundation for Contemporary Arts recognized Queen’s work with the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea, a memoir about her time in the U.S. Navy alongside short histories of maritime women, is forthcoming from Legacy Lit/Hachette in August 2025.

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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 4.45 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Black Peculiar 4.30 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran's Memoir 3.95 avg rating — 65 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Non-Sequitur 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conduit by Khadijah Queen (Goodreads Author), Chris Abani (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Warned inert, we could watch ourselves, foolish, lose it all.”
― Khadijah Queen, Anodyne: Poems

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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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“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”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“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.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego

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“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
― Adrienne Rich

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“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.”
― Lucille Clifton

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“Remember, goals are stars to steer by, not sticks with which to beat ourselves.”
― Barbara Smith

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