Shelia Katasia “Tasia” Watkins
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself … Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
These lines are from Walt Whitman’s epic poem, Song of Myself. The poem was first penned in 1855, and it includes references to the horrors of America before the Civil War, focusing on a particular multi-racial slave.
My heritage and ancestry can be traced back to the West African Slave Trade here in America and the Caribbean. ...
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