Download or read book Ghetto Love Yourself written by Phyllis Washington and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghetto Love Yourself is about growing up in the ghetto during the 70's and 80's, a time when families suffered financially, emotionally and physically. Many used alcohol to cope with despair and poverty, but we turned to our music to feel love.
Download or read book Ghettonation written by Cora Daniels and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr, to cast; from Latin jactare to throw 1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live 2: a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure 3a: an isolated group a geriatric ighetto/i” bb: ghet-to adj. (twenty-first-century everyday parlance) 1a: behavior that makes you want to say “Huh?” b: actions that seem to go against basic home training and common sense 2: used to describe something with inferior status or limited opportunity. Usually used with “so.” That’s so ighetto/i” ; He’s so ighetto/i” brb3: As current and all-consuming as “ghetto” is in these days of gold teeth, weaves (blond and red), Pepsi-filled baby bottles, and babymamas, ghetto has a long history. The original ghetto was in the Jewish quarter of Venice, a Catholic city. Before it became the Jewish quarter, this area contained an iron foundry or ghèto, hence the name. These days, ghetto no longer refers to where you live, but to how you live. It is a mindset, and not limited to a class or a race. Some things are worth repeating: ghetto is not limited to a class or a race. Ghetto is found in the heart of the nation’s inner cities as well as the heart of the nation’s most cherished suburbs; among those too young to understand (we hope) and those old enough to know better; in little white houses, and all the way to the White House; in corporate corridors, Ivy League havens, and, of course, Hollywood. More devastating, ghetto is also packaged in the form of music, TV, books, and movies, and then sold around the world. Bottom line: ghetto is contagious, and no one is immune, no matter how much we like to suck our teeth and shake our heads at what we think is only happening someplace else… From an award-winning journalist and cultural commentator comes a provocative examination of the impact of “ghetto” mores, attitudes, and lifestyles on urban communities and American culture in general. Infused with humor and entertaining asides—including lists of events and people that the author nominates for the Ghetto Hall of Fame, and a short section written entirely in ghetto slang—Ghettonation is a timely and engrossing report on a controversial social phenomenon. Like Bill Cosby’s infamous, much-discussed comments about the problems within the Black community today, it is sure to trigger widespread interest and heated debate.
Download or read book Learning to Love Yourself written by Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all come into this world full of promise and possibility. For some, when born into a healthy and highly functional family, the journey is quite easy, with guideposts and directions given freely. However, that is a very small population of people. Most of us were born into families that were in their own way struggling for independence, accomplishment, safety or security. For the millions of people who grew up in painful families, whether by absent parents, abusive parents, or those who were ill-equipped, noted therapist Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse shows that they do not have to follow a family tradition of compulsion or addiction. In the revised edition of the classic Learning to Love Yourself, Wegscheider-Cruse explains that it is possible to create our own self-worth at any time in our lives, even as adults. She guides readers on a journey to greater self-worth, explaining how to eliminate toxic self-defeating messages, how to choose healthier, new perspectives, and how to reinvent yourself each day open to a world of possibilities.
Download or read book Loving Yourself written by Daphne Rose Kingma and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingma shows how readers can start to love themselves through a simple four-step process of speaking out of one's heart's desires, acting out to meet them, clearing out old patterns, and setting out on a new path.
Download or read book Revelations of a Hood Chick written by Kijana LeTasha Harris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry is an expression of ones perception of their lifes experiences. Sometimes in life we have battles within ourselves. When we are growing and maturing, it can sometimes be painful. But growing pains are normal. We as young children experience the aches in our bones and muscles as we grow. Well, as adults, we experience that same kind of pain, but its in our hearts and minds. The big picture is to embrace our pains because theyre temporary. Once we have reached our maturity, we have an unfiltered wisdom. That is something only experience can bring. The harder we struggle, the stronger we have a chance to become. The choice is our own. In my life, I have struggled with love. Its easy for me to give yet hard to receive. Therefore, I have set out to conquer my inner self. I have started my journey by loving me and letting me love me back. I express my thoughts that are nontraditional because Im not traditional. I have always been considered different or an outcast, but I learned I am supposed to be. These poems are a reflection of who only God can see, and I am ready to reveal myself.
Download or read book Fundamism written by Paul Long and published by L1fe, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOW DO YOU IMPROVE YOUR OWN LIFE? You find a way to deal with the challenges life throws your way... which is always easier said than done. A favorite quote of mine, by George Bernard Shaw, explains a lot of why I feel we struggle in life: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." Which is why I wanted to write this book. To share how incorporating more FUN into our lives will ultimately allow us to deal with any challenging moments that come our way. Take a moment right now and think about someone you know who is consistently upbeat, optimistic, and appears to be troubled by nothing. On the surface, they look like they enjoy life and have a lot of FUN. Ever wished you could be more like them? Wished you could approach life the same way, letting things just roll off your back like water off a duck's back? YOU CAN! By reading Fundamism: Connecting to Life Through F.U.N. you're one step closer to feeling more joy and fulfilment in your life. You're one step closer to feeling good and looking like the person you recalled above. We all desire happiness and minimal stress but life doesn't always work out the way we want it to. Throughout this book, you'll learn how to improve self-esteem, deal with life challenges, overcome fear... ultimately, this book will help you to change your life. Using 10 FUNdamentals, you'll quickly learn how easy it is to add more fun to your life and those around you. What are you waiting for? It's time to jump on the F.U.N. train (all aboard!) and smile, laugh and have more fun... all you have to do is buy Fundamism: Connecting to Life Through F.U.N. to get started!
Download or read book No Weapon Formed Against Me Will Ever Be More Than I Can Bare written by Empress I’ Mel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come with me on a poetical journey of a lifetime. Through the joys, realisations, painful aspects and experiences in my life. In this book you are bound to experience every form of emotion going. You will see how much times I fell or was failed before I finally stood back up. Throughout this book you will be inspired in every shape and form at times I also offer further advice into certain experiences of life and how we can do our best to turn it all around. We should not allow ourselves to be governed by the things that other people do or say to us. Because you are somebody all on your own and you have been someone since you was conceived. The title of this book is Biblical and it locks together the awesome promises which God gave to us. Which are No weapon formed against you shall prosper and that God will Never allow you to go through more than you can bare. Read the book and you will be aware of that promise at work in my life and yours also. This book can help those who have gone through or are going through to regain some hope and to take back power from their pain My dream for this book is that it will serve as a manual for those Who think there is no escape from the pain. Hopeful it will lead them to seek or enter into a life of unique oneness with ones self and understand their connection to the world they experience outside of themselves. Therefore they will no longer be a prisoner of their own captivity.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-07-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book The Three Rooms written by Kevin Murphy and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move into the Present Room and Enjoy Your Life “The Three Rooms is a heartfelt seminal text which addresses self-understanding in spatial and temporal terms, simple enough for a child to understand, yet deep enough to awaken a true spiritual seeker.” —Dr. Michael R. Cunningham, Chancellor, National University System Most of us are sleepwalking, focusing on the physical world when we should be paying attention to our inner selves, and to being in the present. The Three Rooms will help readers awaken and align with their Higher Self. The book uses the metaphor of rooms to represent places our thoughts go: backwards to the Past Room, forward to the Future Room, or now in the Present Room. In the Present Room, there are no regrets of the past or fears of the future; it is the ideal state “where we can find joy, peace, acceptance, and compassion,” among other positive emotions. That is where we are meant to be.
Download or read book Racializing Justice Disenfranchising Lives written by M. Marable and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans today face a systemic crisis of mass underemployment, mass imprisonment, and mass disfranchisement. This comprehensive reader makes clear to students the mutual constitution of these three crises.
Download or read book Self Love Workbook for Black Women written by Rachel Johnson LMSW, MFT and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show yourself a little TLC with self-love exercises for Black women As a Black woman, the many roles you fill can leave little room to take care of yourself. Prioritize your own joy, healing, and growth with this self-care workbook for Black women, filled with empowering exercises and affirmations that help you nurture your authentic self and thrive. Embrace self-love—Lay the foundation for self-love as you reflect on your identity, explore experiences many modern Black women share, and learn what loving yourself truly means. Put it into practice—Discover writing prompts, affirmations, and other simple exercises that help you find inner peace and self-confidence. Explore key themes—Learn to love where you're at, practice self-compassion, let go of self-doubt, foster your self-worth, and build a community that empowers you. Give yourself the gift of self-compassion with this uplifting choice in self-care books for Black women.
Download or read book ESPERER The Hope written by SYED SABEEQA ANDRABI and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Minds can't be prisoned nor the thoughts"~Syed Sabeeqa Andrabi. An entirely stunning anthology with the words and phrases of people across different cultures is stuffed here. Those that can't reach you are now conversing with you. This book will help you to know the broad thoughts of beautiful 31 authors all over the world.
Download or read book The Golden Ghetto written by Jessie H. O'Neill and published by Affluenza Project. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a peculiarly American notion that money will guarantee happiness, bring us personal fulfillment, strengthen our relationships, give us smarter, better-adjusted children--in short, make all our dreams come true.
Download or read book American Pictures written by Jacob Holdt and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1971 to 1978 the author, a Dane, hitchiked across more than 100,000 miles of America. This volume, written at the journey's end, contains some 700 of the photographs he took, and describes his odyssey.
Download or read book The Passion of a Poet written by Harvey Howell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book which is titled Passion of a Poem is the actual name of the book, but this version is called A Painful Reality because of the disappointment or harsh views that’s being addressed. The author gave some of the poems a secondary elucidation in addition to the breakdowns because of the facts or necessary research he wanted to implement that was very informative and significant to what he was trying to convey. This is the Passion of a Poet: A Painful Reality.
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Download or read book How to Hustle and Win written by Supreme Understanding and published by Supreme Design Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Likened to a 48 Laws of Power for young Black men, this book presents Black biographies, history, and current events in a language that the Hip-Hop generation will understand and relate to. Each story or essay is framed within the context of a life lesson, each one being of vital importance to the survival, redemption, and ultimate success of our dying Black generation. Both the positive and negative sides of the Black experience are explored in detail, from the lives of infamous drug dealers and pimps to the exploits of Black revolutionaries and activists. In addition, several How To sections outline simple strategies for self-development. Packed with useful information, from the best way to handle confrontations with police, to the continuing relevance of the 1919 race riots, this book has been compared to an urban Encyclopedia Africana. Others have called it a Blueprint for Black Power for a generation struggling with materialism and short attention spans. This book is guaranteed to change the world by changing the way millions of people think and live. In How to Hustle and Win, author Supreme Understanding tells, in often graphic detail, stories like that of the infamous Philadelphia Black Mafia, Harlem's heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, and former gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams. In between and throughout these tales, he weaves life lessons and guidance, turning sordid stories of crime and urban despair into an educational experience. Whereas Robert Greene's bestselling 48 Laws of Power used iconic figures from classical history to illustrate the guidelines for personal success, How to Hustle and Win is filled with the exploits of rappers, gangsters, radicals, and revolutionaries. This is a new kind of Black history book, and its intent is the motivation and achievement of a new kind of reader. Although today's literary market has seen an influx of self-help books attending to a variety of issues, few books have attempted to address the concerns of young Black men, struggling to find direction. It is this group that author Supreme Understanding names as one of most troubled demographics in American society today. On the book's website, the author comments: "Unfortunately, few authors actively target this audience, and those who do are either not speaking their language, or not interested in pushing for change. This is why How to Hustle and Win was written. This book will change the minds of millions of young men of color, and by doing this, it will ultimately change the world." Revolutionary aspirations aside, How to Hustle and Win's groundbreaking concept results in a truly appealing work. Its essays are delivered in short bursts, none of them over four pages long, making it ideal for struggling readers and those with shorter attention spans. At the same time, the book is filled with a wealth of information that would enlighten educated readers equally. In fact, the author juxtaposes his own personal tales of early delinquency and misdirection with his later years of professional success, including obtaining a doctorate in education at the age of 26.
