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- You're a writer, Ms. Vivo says,her gray eyes bright behindthin wire frames. Her smile bigger than anythingso I smile back, happy to hear these wordsfrom a teacher's mouth. She is a feminist, she tells usand thirty fifth-grade hands bend into deskwhere our dictionaries wait to open yet anotherword to us. Ms Vivo pauses, watches our fingers flyWebster's has our answers.Equal rights, a boy names Andrew yells out. For womenMy 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:
- a writer
- Black brothers, Black sister, all of them were greatno 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 lives the blacksbut the blacks were smartin fear they took no part.One of them was Martin.with a heart of gold.You're a writer, Ms. Vivo says, holding my poem out to me.And standing in front of her classtaking 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 becausemore than anything else in the world, I want to believe her.
- I selected this poem because I relate to it.When Mrs. Vivo tells Jacqueline that shes a writer she feels as if all her hard work has paid off, and she feels confident and good about herself. That's how I feel when people say i'm good at basketball. When people say i'm doing good at basketball it makes me want to keep practicing more to get even better. And when Mrs. Vivo asked Jacqueline to present in front of her class she was nervous at first, but then she wanted to believe what her teacher said. I also get nervous before a basketball game, but I want my coach and other to think goof d of me so I try my best.
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