Carolina Quotes
The essence of me are the whispers of those ancestral old Black and white people who whispered in my ears as a child. I don’t wanna be so far away that I can’t hear them.
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
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