to go public with this. Well, it’s not really public until there is a following. This unburdening, challenging the fear. Black people live in fear is what TaNehisi Coates says. He acknowledges that we fear for our lives our bodies even when we are not aware of it. The elevated blood pressure. I think of those little girls made into human bombs. She would not detonate because she saw her mother and father and her little sisters in the crowd. Today Sonia Sanchez said our mission is to find out what it means to be human. And yesterday I read that horses recognize angry human faces. Their hearts race. That little girl. How much terror can the heart tolerate without automatically stopping?
Sonia Sanchez “Put on the Sleeves of Love”
Pedagogy as Poetry 