<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390804" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Idea of Ancestry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black<br>faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand-<br>fathers (both dead), brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts,<br>cousins (1st and 2nd), nieces, and nephews.They stare<br>across the space at me sprawling on my bunk.I know<br>their dark eyes, they know mine.I know their style,<br>they know mine.I am all of them, they are all of me;<br>they are farmers, I am a thief, I am me, they are thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have at one time or another been in love with my mother,<br>1 grandmother, 2 sisters, 2 aunts (1 went to the asylum),<br>and 5 cousins.I am now in love with a 7-yr-old niece<br>(she sends me letters in large block print, and<br>her picture is the only one that smiles at me).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have the same name as 1 grandfather, 3 cousins, 3 nephews,<br>and 1 uncle. The uncle disappeared when he was 15, just took<br>off and caught a freight (they say).He's discussed each year<br>when the family has a reunion, he causes uneasiness in <br>the clan, he is an empty space.My father's mother, who is 93<br>and who keeps the Family Bible with everbody's birth dates<br>(and death dates) in it, always mentions him.There is no<br>place in her Bible for &quot;whereabouts unknown.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Etheridge+Knight">Etheridge Knight</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390804" data-title="The Idea of Ancestry de Etheridge Knight" data-description="Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand- fathers (both dead), brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins (1st and 2nd), nieces, and nephews.They stare across the space at me spra..."></div> </div> </div>

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