: About Me

My story is still being written. Right now, I'm on chapter 3 - at 30 years old. However, I can see chapter four is already in the works.

My passion is ...

Sleeping

I know too much about ...

Being broke

My parents always told me ...

Education is the only route out of the ghetto

My childhood ambition ...

To marry William King

My favorite memory ...

When my daughter, 11 months old at the time, brought me a tissue because I sneezed.

Why I write ...

If I don't I'll die

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

A Room of One's Own

My first job ...

Sweeping up hair in my mother's beauty shop.

My best moment ...

I'll know it when it happens

My inspiration ...

Success stories

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Struggle in life

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Colored Women She is high toed knee deep in colored sin wearing the black of pitch and red of whores her skin, yellow like geechies bathed in dust we women all want what she has endured smiles drenched in assurance and hips to match a walk that boisterously whispers come take what you think is yours and own it now later is for those knowing no better Mama says ladies don't wear that color you know, that color men pay others for We churched, highfalutin, gentile, limp ones keepers of god and his law, the pure type we wear white on first Sunday's, heads covered skirts long, shackles tight li...

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