The Door of No Return

by Kwame Alexander

And when the singing stopped, the silence erupted.

is not the crown that sits atop a man that makes him big. It is what is inside, he says, tapping the left side of his chest. Know your heart, Grandson.

There is nothing more confining, I hear Mr. Phillip read, than the prison we do not know we are in.

What you do not suffer for, you can never truly value.