Download or read book Feeling Some Type of Way written by Angela Ford Johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant and spirited, Feeling Some Type of Way is a passionate collection of poetry and prose. Moving effortlessly between the classic and the experimental, the words feel like big city summers and country campfires. Self-discovery, humor, womanhood, relationships, urban mythos, protests, and LOVE are all found here. These poems are intimate yet candid; meant to be spoken. These stories are all of ours, meant to be shared.

Download or read book Some Type of Way written by Lisa Schelbe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At age 17, Plato disclosed that he had been certain his whole life that he would die-most likely by being shot on the street like other Black young men he knew-by the age of 18. As his 18th birthday approached, Plato planned to spend his birthday alone, reflecting on the reality that he might have a future. As he approached adulthood and the transition out of foster care, the many possibilities seemed miraculous to him"--

Download or read book The Forsaken written by L. A. Banks and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Banks spins a head-bendingly complex tale of passion, mythology, war, and love that lasts till the grave--and beyond . . . devoted fans should relish this new chapter in a promising series."

Download or read book Torn written by Latoya S. Madden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poetry is a part of me Latoya S. Madden just a small account of life story. While reading I ask that you not judge me but consider yourself or someone else that may have gone thru or be going something similar and see the point of it all that I was going thru and that I did not give up. No I have not arrived yet but I am still pressing forward on my way towards greater. Although the journey may be long and have its ups and downs I can truly say that I am still blessed and have found an abundance of love in my life. I am rich already because I am surrounded by some many people who love me for who I am and not what I have to give. I thank God for allowing me to see the light while I still have breath in my body and strength in my bones.

Download or read book Love Awaits You written by Tarry Bailey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This coffee-table book is comprised of beautiful feelings and poetry, expressing with every word what is it to truly love and care for someone. This book contains not only love but hopes and dreams of what this world is and can inspire you to be. This book is a visual representation of all the ways individuals can love one another. Love can be a couple celebrating their golden anniversary, to a man and woman who loved each other at first sight, a mother or father to their child, best friends, or strangers sharing a meal. The words are woven together to let you, the reader, know you are important and you matter. Perhaps you will be able to find within these pages words to powerfully express what you have always wanted to say to that special someone in your life.

Download or read book God is Everything He is Everywhere Glory to The Lord written by Erin Allen and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you searching for your soulmate? The one the Lord has created just for you? Do you feel like you are searching for love in world that has none? Do you feel rejected, unloved, unwanted, like you are missing an experience you know you should be having?Please enjoy this book as you journey into my road to salvation with Jesus Christ. Evil, magic, prophesies, witchcraft spells, lust, betrayal, growth, forgiveness, healing, and love. Everything. Just like our God is everything.If you havenaEUR(tm)t yet, please get a relationship with the Lord Christ Jesus. He is our salvation from this world. Take head: If a person is preforming magic and wonders but is not acknowledging our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and HIS basic principles, then they are not with God. This is a true story.

Download or read book All I Need In This Life Of Sin Is A Thug s Love 3 written by Vee Bryant and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominic and Keno are locked up and don’t know if they’re going to get out. The only communication they have with their women is through letters because they don’t want them at the prison. Malika is enjoying being a mommy and handling her business. She likes being able to go to work and know that her baby is in good hands. She is worried about her husband but knows that he will be straight no matter what happens. Malika turns into a savage behind her man and baby girl. Kia and Keno are still having issues, but they are about to hit the fan after a murder occurs in the club. Kia finds herself in some trouble, and she doesn’t know how she’s going to get out of it... that is until an unlikely person steps up and decides to take the wrap for her. Keno is confused about being with Kia, and instead of him telling her, he strings her along. When he tells her, it may be the last thing he ever says.

Download or read book Vibe written by Corey J. Miles and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use "vibe" as a mode of knowing and communication, author Corey J. Miles illustrates how Black feeling and unfeeling offer entry points into the contemporary South that challenge static and monolithic notions of the region. Placing the local artists in conversation with other southern cultural creators such as 2 Chainz, Rod Wave, and Rapsody, these ethnographic narratives demonstrate that there are multiple Souths, with overlapping and distinct commitments to working through pain, sound, and belonging. In Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South, Miles narrates how southern Black sound, feeling, and being is constantly policed, surveilled, and criminalized. In doing so, he re-narrates the region as the "carceral South," to capture the ways people in the South and beyond can feel the emotional weight of the criminalization of Blackness. Pain music, a subgenre of trap music, is used to take the listener to moments of violence to allow them to hear the desires, anger, and silences that bind Black life in community. Through conceptions of ratchet, hood, and ghetto, Black artists turn away from respectable images and unmap the South. In trap music, they move the South to a space where multiple modes of being find respect and care.

Download or read book Historically Black Phrases written by jarrett hill and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun and thoughtful dictionary of Black language you didn’t know you needed, Historically Black Phrases is a love letter to the Black community and the ways it drives culture. “This perfect blend of explanation, definition and social commentary will have you laughing while learning.”—George M. Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of All Boys Aren't Blue and We Are Not Broken Black vernacular doesn’t often get its due—despite its enormous influence on mainstream culture—but Historically Black Phrases is here to give Black language its flowers. A celebration of more than two hundred staples of Black conversation—from church sayings and units of measure to compliments and reprimands—this sharp and witty guide explores the unique importance of Black expression and communication. Historically Black Phrases offers definitions and notable pop culture moments, as well as tips on pronunciation and usage of phrases like “feelin’ yourself,” “don’t get it twisted,” and “pop off.” In addition to the phrases, short essays offer insight on different facets of Black language from scholars, entertainers, and pop culture commentators (i.e., everybody and they mama). Authors, journalists, and hosts of the award-winning podcast FANTI, jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson examine each phrase with humor and cultural precision, making Historically Black Phrases a vital ode to how Black language influences the world.

Download or read book SIX DAYS TILL SUNDAY written by GWENDOLYN MCKELVIN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a women trying to juggle her life with family, friends and business while at the same time looking for love.

Download or read book Strings Attached written by Stevi McGregor and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strings Attached: Knotted Lies By: Stevi McGregor Money, Sex, Love, and Murder—more money than you can count, more mind-blowing sex than you can handle, the fairytale love you never thought you’d find, and the gruesome murders you never thought you’d be a part of. Miko Lehaun, a global senior makeup artist, takes a wild ride of life’s twists and turns that leaves her head spinning in the most enticing but savage ways. Miko and her three college friends, close enough to be considered family, are living their best lives, building empires and partying like rock stars, when an unexpected heart-wrenching loss changes their relationship dynamic forever. As they discover the very people closest to them aren’t who they seem, they find themselves tangled in a knotted web of lies and deceit. When their appetite for the truth begins to fuel their motive for revenge, they realize their red-bottomed soles leave footprints and their expensive manicures leave bloody fingerprints. Strings Attached: Knotted Lies is book one in a multibook series of twists, turns, sex, lies, murder, and love. See how the story ends…or does it?

Download or read book Commitment to Progression written by Dathien Grainger and published by Cordell Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an early age Dathien Grainger went throughout life curious, not knowing, second guessing and continued to get lost within himself. Not even himself knew exactly how much intellect he really had until self mentality was all that was left. He had to maneuver, he had to be efficient, and he had to be diligent. Life wasn't a game nor to be played with, it would take becoming alone and losing everything several times before he had begun to realize that there were keys, structures, building blocks that he had learned from his past that would be his ability to mold him from his cycle of disbelief and unknowing before he could become in tuned enough to realize that he to; was worth it...Life

Download or read book When A Thug Has Feelings written by Senoj and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every good girl needs a thug that’ll give her the world and more, but what happens when the love comes with drama and secrets? Growing up, Shaniya “Niya” Brown fell for the neighborhood terrorizer, Dreon Carter, and at the age of sixteen, she became pregnant. When her parents found out, they decided to uproot them to another city. After losing contact with Dreon, she experienced her first heartbreak and decided to shift her focus back on her education. Now twenty-three, Niya is in her final year of law school, but over the years she continued to experience the short end of any relationship she was in, including the relationship with her parents. She finally accepts that her heart has never fully healed, but that all changes once she sees Dreon again. She doesn’t know how he will feel about the secret she’s been keeping from him. Dreon Carter was known for the havoc he wreaked growing up. But after being abandoned by his mother on his grandmother’s steps, he was angry and released that anger on other kids. Sometimes, even letting Niya tag along. Barely graduating high school, due to poor attendance, he went into the streets full time and was now known by the street name Menace. He ended up serving some time in prison, but now at twenty-five, he is the king of the dope game in Cleveland, running the streets with his right-hand man, Renzo. He has a two-year-old daughter by a crazy baby mama who’s set on being a pain in his ass and causing friction between him and Niya. Along with running the streets, he’s trying to run his home, but with the streets and his home life trying to cross, he runs into problems. The bond of Menace and Niya is undeniably unbreakable, but is Niya strong enough to be the woman of a thug, going against everything she’s about, and dealing with the drama that comes along? Can Menace avoid the pressures of the street life and be the man Niya wants him to be, while also not giving up his streets, or will it all be too much?

Download or read book Heels Have A Story written by Mikia Dameron and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm ready to do a cleanse. No, not the kind that makes you regular or loses weight, but a cleanse of my closet. I have boxes and boxes of heels that were gifts from my husband. So many shoes that I haven't been able to wear them all. Brand names from Jimmy Choo, Michael Kors and Balenciaga to name a few. Yes chile, I can pay a few mortgages with my shoe collection. Why am I trying to get rid of them? Well, it is simple. My heels have a story. Listen up, and you'll see why.

Download or read book Black Women and Resilience written by Kisha Braithwaite Holden and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Women and Resilience: Power, Perseverance, and Public Health brings together a wealth of qualitative and quantitative research to help foster broad understanding and advancement of Black women's collective health and wellbeing. Throughout, Kisha B. Holden and Camara Phyllis Jones and their contributors use a health equity lens, maintaining that achieving health equity requires valuing all individuals and populations equally, recognizing and rectifying historical injustices, and providing resources according to need. Across four sections, scholars, practitioners, and community leaders address cultural narratives of Black womanhood; significant health issues affecting Black women; trauma, stressors, and strategies for healing; and advocacy for social justice and collective action. Multivocal and multidisciplinary, Black Women and Resilience models and invites exchange across sectors and specializations while consistently centering the experiences and contributions of Black women as catalysts for transformation.

Download or read book Romeo and Juliet of the Projects written by Krystal Armstead and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two lost souls find everything they wanted once they step outside of their comfort zones and into each other’s arms. However, some people are meant to fall in love but not meant to be together. Can two people with a painful past build a better future? Does love really conquer all? Bostyn “Easy” Reel has always felt like he didn’t belong. He is stuck between two worlds: in one world, he is being who he really wants to be, and in the other world, he is being only what his family allows him to be. He feels like he is drowning in darkness, haunted by his past. After finding out that he was adopted, Bostyn finds himself on a search to discover who he really is. When Meelah Summers meets Bostyn, it is as if the broken pieces of her heart fit together perfectly with the broken pieces of his. Meelah felt empty growing up without her mother, being raised by a father who was never there. Meeting Bostyn couldn’t have come at a better time. The only problem is Meelah’s father is a well-known drug distributor, and Bostyn’s adoptive father is the head of the Anne Arundel County Police Department—the same police department responsible for killing her mother.

Download or read book Irresistible written by Trina Petersen and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irresistible helps women focus their energy and experience true love. Women know what they want: love, peace, and joy. The challenge is, no one has figured out how to get it. With today’s technology, information, and communication, it seems that finding true love would be easy, as easy as walking into a jewelry store and choosing a diamond. Unfortunately, most women’s search for love feels more like digging in a coal mine: dark, messy, and frustrating. The wrong relationship seems to find and attach itself time after time, leaving the heart empty and soul angry. In Irresistible, life coach and pastor Trina Petersen uses wisdom gained from personal experience and guiding others through the Four Cs of Love to lay out a workable and proven plan that works, if women work it. Discover how you can experience a relationship that meets your needs and exceeds your expectations—and find true love!