Comments on: A Confession

By: Tara Betts

Tara Betts — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:42:18 +0000

Oh my goodness, Kwame is a Steve Harvey fan too! I heard this episode, and he was truly working the hyperbole of Black vernacular. I especially like the top tens and the advice segments for the strawberry letters. Other than that, I think that it’s easy to forget that people do not always live in a world of studied references, and it’s OK to be lighthearted too.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:55:16 +0000

For years now I’ve been saying that I want to marry Steve Harvey and everytime I say this my friends laugh me to scorn. But I seriously love that man. Who else can wear a purple suit like that? No one! And Kwame, I think your Harvey addiction is relevant to poetry because the poet must be able to process the world from different angles and the poet must have a sense of humour (in my opinion) or else she/he runs the risk of writing poetry that takes itself too seriously. Who needs more of that? I really do love Steve Harvey.

By: patricia

patricia — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:48:59 +0000

Oh, Kwame. You are constantly after my heart. I’m a devoted, diehard listener of the Steve Harvey Morning Show (harboring a fervent, and quite inexplicable crush on Nephew Tommy), and I admit to more belly laughs listening to their uncontrolled chaos than I’ve had in quite a time. Steve is everybody’s out-of-control uncle at the family barbecue, spewing off-color gossip, flailing to the strains of Parliament/Funkadelic (”Flashlight,” of course) and never ever apologizing for being down South funk gritty. He speaks without thinking, peppers his rap with gorgeous double negatives and gleefully stumbles over three-syllable words.
I especially like “Freedom Fridays,” when I can crank up the sound in my Honda and blast old-school ballads, unapologetically, as surly hiphoppers glare at me from the sidewalk.
Love it. And glad to hear you share my (up until now) secret passion.
Now, for another confession: I like Wendy Williams too.