10 Things That Scare Me

When you're a little kid, everything looks big.

Born Lamont Jody Hawkins, U-God is an American rapper and hip-hop artist and one of the founding members of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. He is the author of Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang. If you want to enter the Wu-Tang, just head to the corner of Targee Street and Vanderbilt Avenue on Staten Island in New York City, which has been officially renamed the "Wu-Tang Clan District."

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This is all I deserve.

Alex Goldman is the co-host of the podcast Reply All from Gimlet Media.

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My own heartbeat.

Kathryn Harrison is a writer living in New York City. Her latest book is On Sunset.

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I wanted to read a masterpiece but this is just a book.

Karen Russell is the author of Orange World and other books. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship and lives in Oregon with her husband and son. Her other books include: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Swamplandia!, Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Sleep Donation: A Novella.

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The woods at night.

Garrett Crowe is a writer and podcast producer. Check out his work here. And follow him @crowegarrett.

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Dead air.

Kai Wright is host and managing editor of The Stakes, a podcast about social change, produced by the Narrative Unit of WNYC’s newsroom.

He was also the host of the podcasts The United States of Anxiety, Caught, and There Goes the Neighborhood. He is a columnist and former editor for The Nation.

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The marionettes in my mom’s bedroom.

Sarah Duckett is a mechanical engineer in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Actually being betrayed.

Felix Bircheneder studies English and German language, literature and culture. He sends his greetings from Germany.

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My future sucking.

Zenna Wallace is a student who is homeschooled in Florida.

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Being shot and killed by law enforcement.

DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist. He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.

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