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Antonio Michael Downing

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Caracas, Venezuela

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Writer and musician Antonio Michael Downing was raised in Trinidad, Toronto and Kitchener. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Saga Boy, the novella Molasses, children’s book Stars In My Crown, and the novel Black Cherokee. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in English Literature and has been a recording artist for two decades including three albums as his alter ego John Orpheus. He is also the host of CBC Radio's book program and podcast The Next Chapter. ...more

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	Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming 4.08 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 2021 — 7 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
	Black Cherokee 3.99 avg rating — 128 ratings — 7 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
	Stars in My Crown by Antonio Michael Downing (Goodreads Author), Richy Sánchez Ayala (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 28 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
	Molasses 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 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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“It's not the substance that hooks you, it's the emotions," he explained. "There is a crack somewhere in our spirits, and we have to heal that before anything.”
― Antonio Michael Downing, Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming

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“What was it like?" I asked him. "Did it make you feel better?"

"At first it was peaceful, but then the peace would fly away faster and faster, until there wasn't no peace, just doing it to do it.”
― Antonio Michael Downing, Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming

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“The powwow was a Crown-free space. It breathed life. It celebrated what things were before and what they would be for eternity.”
― Antonio Michael Downing, Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming

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I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall—
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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