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May.15.2012
met for a tea dateon a street called Tatesipping coffeeswallowing bitter truthsin my head singing bitter blueschoose.you can’t have it both wayswhite or black, no shades of greymy hair is black with blades of grayaging and bruisingwaging and losingraging and snoozinglittle control, even less...
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We have sown the wind; he is the hurricane. Offspring of violence, he draws every moment of his humanity from it: we were men at his expense, he becomes a man at ours.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre
About Stephen
Born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, I am a true southerner at heart. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2009 with a degree in Psychology. That same year, I moved to San Francisco and became a community organizer...
Causes Stephen Leeper Supports
San Francisco Organizing Project
People Improving Communities through Organizing
Stephen’s Favorite Books
Wretched of the Earth, The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, Race Matters, Hegemony or Survival:...