Leon Dixon Jr.:
CLASS OF 1986
Southwestern High SchoolClass of 1986
Detroit, MI
Hampton University Laboratory SchoolClass of 1990
Hampton, VA
St. Martin De Porres High SchoolClass of 1986
Detroit, MI
Benedictine High SchoolClass of 1986
Detroit, MI
Gesu SchoolClass of 1982
Detroit, MI
Leon's Story
Leon's schools include Southwestern High School, St. Martin De Porres High School, Gesu School, Benedictine High School, Hampton University Laboratory School.
Music Leon likes includes 2Pac, Keir Ward and K-MoSoul, Amanda Lepore. Books Leon likes include The Wretched of the Earth, The New Jim Crow, 1984 - George Orwell. Movies Leon likes include The Usual Suspects, Bully, Rethinking Education. TV shows Leon likes include The Shield TV, CentricTV, Independent Lens | PBS.
One of Leon's favorite quotes is:"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh, and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invis...Expand for more
ible; understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination-indeed, everything and anything except me. - Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man, 1947)
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. . . . One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
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