"We all wear masks.
Paul Dunbar, in "We Wear the Mask," asks of the world and of poetry, "Why should the world be over-wise, / In counting all our tears and sighs?" Yet, it seems.
He also knows masks sometimes protect us, sometimes keep us from ourselves, and sometimes cause us pain.
And he well knows that sometimes masks let us speak deep truths about the world.
Professor Walker is an expert in masks, or personas.
There are people with whom we can take our masks off and speak from the heart. "We all wear masks