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- A WriterYour a writer, Ms.Vivo says, her gray eyes bright behind thin wire frames. Her smile bigger than anything so I smile back, happy to hear these words from a teacher's mouth. She is a feminist, she tells us and thirty fifth-grade hands bend into desks where our dictionaries wait to open yet another world to us. Ms. Vivo pauses, watches our fingers fly Webster's has out answers. Equal rights, a boy named Andrew yells out. For women. My hands freeze on the thin white pages. Like Blacks, Ms. Vivo, too, is part of a revolution. But right now, that revolution is so far away from me.This moment, this here, this right now is my teacher saying,You're a writer, as she holds the poem I am just beginning.The first four lines, stolenfrom my sister:Black brothers, Black sisters, all of them were great no fear no fright but a willingness to fight...You can have them, Dell said when she saw.I don't want to be a poet.And then my own pencil moving late into the evening.In big fine houses lived the whitesin little old shacks lived the blacksbt the blacks were smartin fear they took no part.One of them was Martinwith a heart of gold.You're a writer, Ms. Vivo says, holding my poem out to me.And standing in front of the class taking my poem from hermy voice shakes as I recite the first line:Black brothers, Black sisters, all of them were great...But my voice grows stronger with each word because more than anything else in the world,I want to believe in her.
- You're a writer!
- I chose this poem because I think when the teacher told her that she was a writer it was a crucial moment in her life because it gave her hope. And then she knew that someone actually believed in her and inspired her. This was a vital part of her life that led her to write. It also inspired her to write about what was going on these days with the revolutions. Her family always told her to become a doctor or a lawyer, but when the teacher told her she is a writer she then knew that she didn't have to be a doctor or a lawyer. She could do what she enjoyed and was good at.
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