LeDerick Horne
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300 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2021
last heard Aug 2021
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Um and in the best case they're they're accessible.
And, you know, as we enter this period where we we are rethinking and redefining a lot of uh the ways in which we interact in the world, I hope that inclusion remains uh at the forefront of how we design those spaces.
I'm a I'm a spoken word poet.
Uh spoken
Or or a performance poet.
I uh think I don't I think that I have always been a poet, um, even when I was very young and
didn't know the letters of the alphabet and couldn't spell very well.
Um, I've always enjoyed language.
Also, I was in special ed with, you know, a bunch of black boys and everybody wanted to be a a rapper and an MC.
And I was fortunate that a lot of my friends, I think, sort of recognized the latent ability to be a a wordsmith that I didn't even recognize.
Um, but it was once I got to college.
My first semester at Middlesex County College, I was a part of an excellent support program called Project Connections.
And uh my counselor within my first week of class told me to just stop worrying about spelling and write.
Just write and then we will deal with the spelling later.
And I literally woke up in the middle of the night
you know, after that conversation and wrote my first poem.
And uh, you know, it's it's it's something that I've been I've been really thinking through recently is how I think so many of us
Are waiting for someone to sort of give us permission to be our whole selves.
And when we're fortunate enough to be.
You know, in a in a s in a space where we uh are are nurtured and sub and supported, sometimes we can we can find that permission, give that permission to ourselves, but I think it is the the power that many uh of the adults have in the world is to be able to
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