I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the same time. It is inevitable that my perspective will be international.

Kwame Dawes

Categorized in : Home Black Perspective

I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that these are our brothers, our sisters, our aunts and uncles, our neighbors. They are us. And I don't mean that in some metaphorical sense. They are literally us.

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My concern is always that I can do justice to what I see and hear... by Kwame Dawes

My concern is always that I can do justice to what I see and hear.

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Racist writing is a craft failure. by Kwame Dawes

Racist writing is a craft failure.

racist crafts writing