Whenever the desire to know something about myself comes from a sincere source,
I am always glad to meet it.
For in telling other folks
I invariably tell my own self something...
Racially, I seem to have
(who knows for sure
? )
seven mixture
s. Because of these,
my position has been a curious one.
I have lived equally amid the two race groups.
Now white, now coloure
d.
From my own point of view
I am naturally and inevitably an artist.
I have strived for a spiritual fusion analogous to the fact of racial intermingling.
Without denying a single element in me, with no desire to subdue one to the other,
I have sought to let them function as complements. I have tried to let them live in harmony.
Now, I cannot conceived of myself as aloof and separate.
My point of view has not changed; it has deepened, it has widened.
Personally, my life has been torturous and dispersed.
It may be begging hunger to say that I am staking my living on my work.
So be it. The mould is cast,
and I cannot turn back even if I would.
from the introduction of "Cane"
by JEAN TOOMER 1922
(edited by sAbU)
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