Monthly Archives: June 2010
Nude Shoes For Brown Girls
June 30, 2010
Link: Nude Shoes For Brown Girls This is giving me life!
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffList of Books – Literature
June 30, 2010
I would like to own all of Octavia E. Butler’s published writing, including the anthologies in which her writing appears. I’m also building the same sort of thing with James Bladwin, bell hooks, C.S. Lewis and Toni Morrison. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off> You have done a wise thing young Jedi. The rebel forces are amassing and to fight the Evil Empire
June 30, 2010
I just subscribed to Drawar for a month and was thanked with this piece of awesome writing. +1 Scrivs.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off“I was beginning to feel like a traitor,” I said. “Guilty for saving him. Now.
June 27, 2010
“I was beginning to feel like a traitor,” I said. “Guilty for saving him. Now…I don’t know what to feel. Somehow, I always seem to forgive him for what he does to me. I can’t hate him the way … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffThis passage is between Dana, the Black protagonist from 1976 and her Alice, her ancestor. One Bl
June 27, 2010
This passage is between Dana, the Black protagonist from 1976 and her Alice, her ancestor. One Black woman to another. I shrugged again, refusing to argue with her. What could I win? She made a wordless sound … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off> I said nothing. I was beginning to realize that he loved the woman – to her misfortune. There was
June 27, 2010
From Kindred When I read this paragraph, my heart skipped a beat. This, as we say write in our social media short hand. THIS.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffFrom “The Fight”
June 27, 2010
I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. “You want to marry me?” “Yeah, don’t you want to marry me?” He grinned. “I’d let you type all my manuscripts.” I was drying our dinner dishes just then, and I threw … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffKindred…
June 27, 2010
I’ll post a few of my favorite passages here. This tumblr auto-posts to twitter, but I can’t use twitter right now, so if you’re here from twitter, please use tumblr to respond.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffI’m healing. And re-reading “Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler. And an American Black woman has to ma
June 26, 2010
I’m healing. And re-reading “Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler. And an American Black woman has to make this into a movie. I can’t do it, but I’ll pay for it to get done.
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Offfor freedom, not yet gotten.
June 25, 2010
what happens when the uniforms come off and humans emerge? broken systems submerge the best of intentions underneath a waterfall of lies, generations of deceit and two mothers’ defeated hopes. justice? no, peace. peace? no. justice. but sometimes it … Continue reading
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