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Yvonne LeCornn talks about her inspiration to write poetry Item Info

Some of the things I just write. It just comes to me and I don’t know. I’ll just be sitting there and it is usually like I’ll be writing a letter to somebody. Then after I get done writing I don’t know what kind of mind frame I was in but I just start writing about whatever I think is important to me, important that I think people need to hear. What drives me nuts is that people that write songs and they write these song and they don’t really have any meaning, no real words of knowledge. That is something that really needs to be opened up more. I think a lot more people are starting to now but in the past 10 years rap was just getting up there and hey, hey, not really spitting out some knowledge that people can use to help guide them in the right way because people feel a certain way but they don’t go that way because they don’t have somebody to help them see that it is o.k. which ever way you decide to go. It’s o.k. if that’s what you want you know.

One of the other things I like to do is write poems for people that have lost people that I know can use a good ear, some good words to help them heal. It is what helps me, too. I’ve been trying to get more into talking about the land issues and our roots; preserving our roots, preserving our fishing rights and things like that. Trying to work that in too, I want to work it into my music because my friend we are going to kind of get something going here. We’ll make a tape and hopefully it will do all right. I am not looking to make profit; I just want people to listen. It is my main goal, I just want people to listen and think about it because the words on there will make you think.

Title:
Yvonne LeCornn talks about her inspiration to write poetry
Date Created:
2002-03
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Yvonne LeCornn talks about her inspiration to write poetry. (Interviewed by Ann McCormack March 2002)
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"Yvonne LeCornn talks about her inspiration to write poetry", Nimíipuu L3, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL)
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https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/nimiipuu-l3/items/nimiipuu-l3-081.html
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