LeDerick Horne
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300 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2021
last heard Aug 2021
LeDerick Horne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And when we ask for help, it is not a sign of weakness, but instead is an indication of our determination.
However, you navigate, it is legit.
This is for those who read with their eyes, ears, and fingertips.
This is for the minds that dance and detail.
And the wide eyed ones who remake the world with every thought they think.
We are the river of innovation from which the whole world drinks.
And who am I?
I am a lover of words, left heartbroken by every spelling test.
In school, my desk was in a classroom at the end of the hall, so this poem is for me too.
Within me is the meeting of two movements.
I am black and blue, my disability is hidden, and I am the descendant of those who could not hide.
I am your neighbor, your countrymen, one of the poets that our nation has produced, and here is what I know to be true.
This world is not enough, he said.
And if this here is what we call normal, I say let's be different.
Let us on this day celebrate every shape, every color, every way, let our actions commemorate the array of our being, build a future in service of the multitude, and let this century be the wilderness from which our better selves are born.
I I do, um
You know, I I believe and I was I was once told that poetry is about
uh showing and not saying
And so uh there are images that come up in my mind as I go through each one of those lines.
And if I'm doing my job well as a writer, then the audience is experiencing some of those images as well.
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