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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.

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When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.

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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

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