I am ugly and I’m proud

Noah J. Walker,
Detroit, MI.

People find unique people weird and ugly and I just think the opposite.

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Not a thing. Just geography + time.

My strength (as a) blackman, doesn't have to be your weakness

I am a proud American man

Married, male, 65, grey, overweight, invisible.

White Baby Boomer Low Wage Slave.

Jewish American princess I am not.

Who's directing? It's HER? No Way!!

Apparently, I'm Jesus, or a terrorist.

Japanese bred and raised, Black heritage

Our hearts are the same, right?

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My skin is not my culture.

Mississippi Freedom summer changed my life

Adopted daughter learns what Yellow means

Drowning in generalizations; floating on truth

Leave identity issues to other people

Fifty years of hope still unfulfilled.

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Finding race is like coming home.

Torn. Frijoles charros or apple pie?

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Never Visited the Country I Claim

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You have a home? I don't.

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Ginger is a root, not me

I am tired of explaining myself.

Wait till Grandma knows he's black

What's having an Asian baby like?

You're mixed with that hair, right?

I believe in the melting pot.

God painted me. He painted you.

Never right time Always right time

Race, the easiest way to discriminate.

You're not one of THOSE Asians.

Let me walk in your shoes

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I am tired of being exotic!

Sharing stories connects and forever changes

Many fingers needed to hold tomorrow

Trying to classify my identity
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