"…I like to think that I'm just part of the struggle because we all sort of exist in this thing, trying to figure out what it means to be human day-to-day and what it means to have, like, suffered and made other people suffer."
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Lawyers from the United StatesMemoirists from the United StatesEducators from the United StatesAfrican AmericansPoets from Maryland
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On whether he is an exception when compared to formerly incarcerated individuals in “'Felon' Author Says, 'Everybody Has To Tell Their Kids Something'” in NPR (2019 Nov 3)
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