Carolina Quotes
So, to document, to tell, to utter, were kind of instructions from my grandmother. And, of course, she didn’t use that language to me as a little girl, but she said, “You must tell the stories.”
Jaki Shelton Green Carolinian
Source
Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University, spring 2019; The Fight & The Fiddle, April 26, 2021
- form
- interview
- work
- Building Community Through Poetry
- year
- 2019
Cite this record
“So, to document, to tell, to utter, were kind of instruction…” Jaki Shelton Green. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-13A2C24EBE. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/13a2c24ebe
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