Today, Zora Neale Hurston's spirit is 124 years old.
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People Once Read Zora Could Not Write
What ignited our spirits about the work was the awesome imagining of the unrecognizable language it presented in the midst of drama we could recognize.
It’s Hard Out Here For a Sister…
If Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant have leaped forth as dark angels to provide us with long-overdue narratives to outline and verify real patterns of mistreatment and injury black men endure, then “Rudy’s” puzzling treatment on the same network she helped bolster so gives us similar analogy for black womahood in America.
Many Blessings To Us All…
I am wishing you a sparkling season and beautiful times with love.
Spirit of Writing Week 10: Very Inspiring Bloggers
I want to thank Ruth's Poetry for nominating me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award...and tell others of the bloggers who inspire me.
Great African-American Books of 2014
Compiling this list of 2014 books by or about Black Americans which I read cover-to-cover, or keep on my "To Read" mantle, is how I have officially begun my holidays; there is just something about putting hands deep into books (with covers and pages) that makes everything all right.
Spirit of Writing Week 9: Useful Gifts For Writers (and Free Tips too…)
There is something in the nature of the loner personality both ill-fated and magically destined to imagine for a living which creates a kleptomania for life overall, the evidence of which are astounding collections of curiosities and mementos and souvenirs and of course BOOKS. And, it is actually okay for you to add to it with the right gifts...End 2014 writing, not planning to write again in 2015. The Spirit of Writing: 12 Weeks of Practice.
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