Saeed Jones, "Kudzu"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9noMEG6-IZU

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Edit: and here's the written text...
https://poets.org/poem/kudzu

"However many masks we invent and deploy, in the end, we cannot control what other people see when they look at us."

Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

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"But from a distance, maybe my body transformed, as the bodies of young black men are wont to do when stared at by white people in this country. Maybe my spine stretched itself into a basketball player’s posture, this stranger’s gaze giving me something I could never quite seem to give myself: the sense of being a real man, strong, even intimidating."

Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

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KWL – Ep 187 – Kobo In Conversation with Saeed Jones https://kobowritinglife.com/2020/03/11/kwl-ep-187-kobo-in-conversation-with-saeed-jones/ #kobowritinglifepodcast #howwefightforourlives #KoboinConversation #KoboWritingLife #KWLPodcast #saeedjones #Kobo #KWL