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Harlem - College Essay

Harlem

Harlem, my dear Harlem! Momma woulda loved this place. She always said she wantedta leave Winnsboro. She would always say that she shouldna stopped and returned back to Louisiana when she tried to runaway with Pa. I’m sad ta say, I never met him. A Creole man that loved the French part of him, and couldn’t stand to be no less than the white man. He supposedly made it to a small town just left of Toronto in Canada, and he waited for years for Momma ta come up. Momma said that he was a good man that just wanted a better place for me and my brothers to grow up into. Momma explained ta me why she never went up to join him. She said that when he ran from the plantation, she was pregnant with my ...

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this man named James Weldon Johnson.

I called him JJ cause Idn’t think I’d member his real name¬—I’ll never forget his name for the rest of my life. JJ and I bonded quick as I don’t know what, and we was real good friends in school, and we still is good friends to this day. I member a whole lot about him but it always had to do with litature. He loved to write, and the thing is, it was always the best poems or stories you’d ever heard in ya life. He was a wonderful author. I mean you could just sit and listen to his stories for two days straight and neva get bored one bit. He’s here with me now, and he’s still writin’ good stories and poems. Matter a fact one of his poems named “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” was written for Lincoln’s birthday back in hundred and its real popula now. Tanight JJ is takin’ me to see Louie Armstrong play that trumpet a his. Last time JJ took me ‘em, I came out thinking the same way I was thinking when JJ first read one of his stories to me, cept’ this ...

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Added: 3/6/2011 12:08:11 PM
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Category: Creative Writing
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