I have written that we can love each other the way we love our blackness, but what does that mean?… Read more The Way I Love My Blackness

America is Not America Anymore America is not America anymoreno more golden doors, no lanternslit to welcome the tired and… Read more America is not America anymore.

We Wear a Legacy When I think of you, I can feel the earth vibrate under my feet.My legs are… Read more We Wear a Legacy

3-17-15 It slowly chips away atMy soul, like a faucetThat has a drip, thatwon’t stop.Quietly at first, thenEvermore present inThe… Read more Insanity

Know who you are and the lessons you learned in your home Believe in yourself; you are your truth If… Read more Life Lessons One

When I die, I want to hear Negro Spirituals as I did when I came into the world, bathed in… Read more I want to Hear Negro Spirituals…

Sometimes I close my eye to escape the sight of mytortured childI watch as she presses her back hard against… Read more Barbed Wire

I feel all of you. I feel each of you who sits in darkness, surrounded by a room full of… Read more All of You

The door has been flung open, the bird gazes out, slowly, ever so slowly this caged bird stretches her tired… Read more Death Flight of A Caged Bird

I love you based on the promise I made to love you forever. Today is a reflection of the love… Read more Sizzled To The Bone