Here’s to Bill Withers: working-class poet, artist and intellectual
3 min readApr 3, 2020
The “African-American Everyman”
“He’s the last African-American Everyman,” musician and band leader Questlove told Rolling Stone in 2015. “Jordan’s vertical jump has to be higher than everyone. Michael Jackson has to defy gravity. On the other side of the coin, we’re often viewed as primitive animals. We rarely land in the…
