Communication Arts aren’t just the business of advertising strategists & English teachers.

They’re not just sentiments, but sediments: They’re part of our human inheritance.

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Tell me your voice remembers it’s grain & can speak to what made you.

Tell me your utterance is braided, aware of its legacies & also its breach.

Tell me you know words are substances— part conjuring, part dream.

Tell me you know how to write on apartheid walls & press until they fall.

Tell me you know how these arts are also used to hold them up.

Tell me you want to be more than a tourist in your own life.

Tell me when you love its for more than just yourself.