Across the diaspora, Black creatives are helping to shape the world's culture BlackHistoryMonth
A handful of creatives in the diaspora create from a place of rawness, I think because we are trying to find home. Wherever continent you are from, it always feels like you're trying to find home. I've seen that across the diaspora in people's work. I searched for home for so long, but I've come to understand that home is inside me, no matter where I am in the world. No matter what country or city, what I carry inside of my heart, soul, and spirit makes it home. We carry home.
It's easy for us to often be compartmentalized by identities and borders and what those borders mean to Western society. You learn more about your history so much as you seek it out, and you find the will to learn and the will to understand. I come fromof poets, artists, and thinkers who were always in conversation with the continent in awareness that we were global people, that we were African people scattered across the globe.
We come from that legacy; once you know where you come from, you know where you're going. What's unfortunate is that our education system is so broken, a lot of our young people aren't being exposed to some of the greatest writers of their time. Language is so important, not just for the sake of comprehension, meaning, and literacy, but even the musicality of language.
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