Matthew R. Morris

BLACK BOYS LIKE ME: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging .

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Black Boys Like Me

now available.

Momma, we did it…

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to learn what you have learned and to face what you have learned takes a long time.

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So u know what side

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Grateful for BBLM top be shortlisted for this prestigious honour.

Shortlist Announced for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing https://t.co/3nNnAVUFas

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Why the ‘boy crisis’ is more than just a school problem https://t.co/3eRGBM1fnx via @YouTube

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Kiese.

[G. F. Allen @AuthorGFAllen]

Have you ever finished a book and immediately thought, “Yep, I need to read everything this author has ever written”?

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We went from not trusting the red or blue squiggly underlines in word documents to copy and pasting whole paragraphs and essays off of ChatGPT.

We got so hollow so quickly...

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Committed to supporting how they come into a holistic selfhood. They deserve to land softly. Deeply committed to every splash.

Thank you Seven Oaks School District in Winnipeg for bringing me back to my roots. Teaching the youth.

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Committed to creating experiences that represent a truthfulness of and about Black youth. To creating space that includes their friendships and their contradictions and the ways they think about where they are now and also the ways they wrestle with the future, their future.

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The 6 eras of NBA fashion — from restrained to radical (Mitchell S. Jackson | TEDNext 2025) https://t.co/ULHou9QPz7 via @TEDTalks

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That’s a pretty solid stack.

[I Am… @HarmoniEquality]

He/She who reads, leads!

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@woodyVSworld Cut it out.

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Got to throw verb tense consistency out the window when the very sentences I’m trying make art with are grappling with time to begin with.

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Most things are optional. You decide. What is important, worth time. Worth centering. Worth making art about. Or for. Worth celebrating. Or criticizing. Or both. Worth a conversation. Worth pushing that conversation forward. All choices about what to hold onto and what to let go.

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What makes a dream different than a memory? Both exist in the past tense. Both remain vanished until retrieved.

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About to write the dog-shit out of some sentences today.

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Yup and they call it “grit” or “resilience” when they make it. They value it when it comes to post secondary. But what about all the ones that don’t make it that far?

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Rich kids get capital. Middle class kids get “figure it out.” Poor kids get trauma and told it builds character. The starting line is not equal.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Rich kids get capital. Middle class kids get “figure it out.” Poor kids get trauma and told it builds character. The starting line is not equal.

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To this day!

[blue @bluewmist]

Unpopular opinion: I still prefer reading physical books over digital ones.

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In that direction is where I begin to gather clarity. Over and over again. Thank you Children’s Aid Society of Toronto for letting me hold hands. Towards that every month. Towards that on all the days. #BBLM

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So often I hold onto finding clarity. Above almost all, clarity is what we’re ultimately looking for. Right? It’s more difficult to arrive there now that it has ever been in the past.

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When where I’m trying to land is the same as folks whom I’m sharing a room with. I find alignment when we—us all in that metaphorical shared space—can hold hands and swim to the surface. Back towards where the light can be seen shimmering.