Download or read book Jake Waking up to Say Good Bye written by Paul Jones and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake rushed in and washed up, but all the scrubs were too small, so he just grabbed the largest size, put them on, and started to the delivery room. However, just as soon as he walked in, they ripped. It was too late to go back in, so he just stayed in there. It wasn’t too long before the doctor was delivering Jake’s baby girl. Jake looked at her like he has never seen a baby before; it was something special, something very special about her.

Download or read book Push written by Sapphire and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers. Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.

Download or read book Push Revised written by Sapphire and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel 'PUSH' by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers. Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.

Download or read book African American Vernacular English as a Literary Dialect written by Sophia Huber and published by Herbert Utz Verlag. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge about one’s linguistic background, especially when it is different from mainstream varieties, provides a basis for identity and self. Ancestral values can be upheld, celebrated, and rooted further in the consciousness of its speakers. In the case of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) the matter is not straightforward and, ultimately, the social implications its speakers still face today are unresolved. Through detailed analysis of the four building blocks phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary, Sophia Huber tries to trace the development of AAVE as a literary dialect. By unearthing in what ways AAVE in its written form is different from the spoken variety, long established social stigmata and stereotypes which have been burned into the consciousness of the USA through a (initially) white dominated literary tradition will be exposed. Analysing fourteen novels and one short story featuring AAVE, it is the first linguistic study of this scope.

Download or read book Diving to the Bottom of Your Eyes written by hierro blanco and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diving to the Bottom of Your Eyes is the love story between two young men. It starts in Madrid in the early seventies during the last years of the very strict and conservative Franco regime and involves characters directly linked to the social and political establishment. It has been a short, pure, explosive, and at the same time, dramatic relation that left enduring memories and scars in the surviving partner. It is written forty years later this means in the present time by the surviving partner, in an utterly poetic and moving style. As it is said in the text, durable relations sometimes do not take a long time to consolidate they may well be quickly built in very robust terms and also quickly destroyed often all done by the same actors in absolute voluntary terms human nature is surely volatile or even very treacherous.

Download or read book Crossing My Jordan written by P.J. Taylor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My life begun hard, and it seemed to just become more and more difficult throughout the years. I once lived a life like J.C. Dougard and Elizabeth Smart, but instead of one sexual predator, I had many. They had families to go home to, where I had none, I was forgotten about years, and years ago and pretty much raised myself with only God's guidance since the age of thirteen. I've been exploited, trafficked, raped, held hostage, kidnapped and more! Then God stepped in, when death was almost beating at my door, He stepped in. Sometimes I feel as if my life wasn't planned by me, but by God. Once you read my story I'm sure you'll understand. You see all of my hopes, dreams, and plans for my life became sidetracked long ago, due to many factors, that took away so many of my plans, my dreams for the future. Through it all I've become an amazing woman. Able to stand tall and strong, finding my inspirations along the way, and praising God for all of His Angels, Saints, and Prophets who've come along and saved me, rescued me, carried me, and blessed my life so profoundly with their kind, gentle, caring ways. Do you view human beings as just people, or are you able to experience such a close relationship with God that you can view people as the little Gods they are? Aren't we all supposed to be reflections of Our Lord and Savior? Then why aren't you able to view those people for the Gifts they are? Or are you able to see yourself and others how God sees you? I hope you enjoy the journey of my life, my story, my testimony as much as I enjoyed writing it. My story is a story of tragedy, but yet it is also one full of inspiration, hope, strength, courage, family, and love. But mainly my story is about Life's Lesson's Learned. Enjoy! P.J. Taylor

Download or read book Waiting for the Sissy Killer written by Omowale Akintunde and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting for the Sissy Killer is a fictional memoir that traces the life of Jamal McCoy from 1961, at age five, to 1986. Jamal is a young black gay man who deals with issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and religion and is struggling with the sociological as well as psychological impact of the aforementioned on his fractured humanity. The story, told from the first person and characterized by sporadic psychotic internal dialogues emanating from the biographical ruminations of Jamal, provides an analysis of American life and culture from a black gay perspective.

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Download or read book Black Resonance written by Emily J. Lordi and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women’s singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith’s blues and Richard Wright’s neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson’s gospel music and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century’s most beloved and challenging voices.

Download or read book Day Is Done written by Ingrid Adams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are your thoughts on death and dying? No one seems to like to talk about Death. Do we hate to deal with the reality it brings? This book is an expression of my thoughts on death and dying. Yes it’s the Unknown and yes it can be scary especially if you’re not prepared for it. This book will help you handle the inevitable. Remember death comes like A thief in the night. will you be ready? I can’t say it will be fun but after reading this book you’ll be ready when your DAY IS DONE. ENJOY!

Download or read book Waking Up written by Paul Jones and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-14 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Jake as he takes this journey and the many parts that he plays, not only in his life but in the lives of others as well. For those that have been waiting for the return of Jake from Waking Up well he's back, in Jake Waking Up Jake's Story Part Two, you know when Jake started, he was born in small southern community. He later left, married and started a family of his own. He soon discovered that he had a half-sister. So now get ready and hang on as you jump back onto, the Jake roller coaster.

Download or read book Blackpoemology written by david vincent brooks and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally [and it may still be] a-work-in-progress... Yet, I have decided to move beyond the comfort of my computer and four little walls of an apartment, and share a labor of love that has taken me twenty-five years to bring out of the closet so too speak. So pull out those old LP's or CD's of a lil Coltrane, Carol Sloane, Shirley Horn, Miles Davis and of course Lady Day. And for all of you new kids on the block, Jill Scott, Remy Shand and Ledisi Young, too! So light some aroma-therapy candles, burn some incense and then allow me to transport you back to a time of growth for some and a revelation for others, for I am the product of: the Civil Rights era/the BEATLES/the SUPREMES/ both the Korean/& VIETNAM wars/the1963 march on Washington...

Download or read book The Sorcerer s Song and the Cat s Meow written by Arthur Roberts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cat and her sorcerer, a beautiful dream weaver, an evil voodoo priest, a bunch of man-sized rats, an army of really big bugs, a crazed randy rabbit, some dwarves, dragons and angry three-toed sloths, New York City, the woods of Maine, the sands of Arabia and the mythic lands of Avalon all come together for the wildest most epic adventure you ve ever read!!!!

Download or read book Obama s Children written by Earl Braggs and published by Madville Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry that addresses the universal quest for human dignity and acknowledgement made specific through the Black experience.

Download or read book Gotta Find Me an Angel written by Brenda Brooks and published by Raincoast Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator, a film projectionist at a second-run cinema, finds herself at an existential crossroads. Driving the drama are her poet roommate Billie, her unconventional editor Claudia, and the unattainable object of everyone’s affection, artist Julia Riding. Enter the ghost of 15-year-old Madeline, a spirit which knows an unbearable secret and has an icy grip on our heroine's heart. One dark night, the narrator recounts Madeline's failed attempts at finding true love in a passionate, wickedly funny lament. On that night, in vibrant prose, Brenda Brooks reveals the secrets behind this unusual love story.

Download or read book Angels Divas and Blacklisted Heroes written by Jeremy Reed and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishing a fusion of literary and serious pop culture, this collection of challenging essays brings together writers and singers who share a common thread of creativity from the cutting edge of their given field. Considering singers ranging from Frank Sinatra and Leonard Cohen to Marc Almond and Scott Walker, this examination also explores writers as diverse as Lautramont, Eugenio Montale, Jean Genet, and Oscar Wilde as well as confronts the subjects of angels in poetry and poetry and magic. An insightful piece on Aleister Crowley and the left-handed path is also included.

Download or read book Young God written by Katherine Faw Morris and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stripped down and stylized—the sharpest, boldest, brashest debut of the year Meet Nikki, the most determined young woman in the North Carolina hills. Determined not to let deadbeats and dropouts set her future. Determined to use whatever tools she can get her hands on to shape the world to her will. Determined to preserve her family's domination of the local drug trade. Nikki is thirteen years old. Opening with a deadly plunge from a high cliff into a tiny swimming hole, Young God refuses to slow down for a moment as it charts Nikki's battles against isolation and victimhood. Nikki may be young, but she's a fast learner, and soon—perhaps too soon, if in fact it's not too late—she knows exactly how to wield her powers over the people around her. The only thing slowing her down is the inheritance she's been promised but can't seem to find, buried somewhere deep in those hills and always just out of reach. With prose stripped down to its bare essence, brash and electrifying, brutal yet starkly beautiful, Katherine Faw Morris's Young God is a debut that demands your attention and won't be forgotten—just like Nikki, who will cut you if you let that attention waver.