Shortly after its birth it was carried to the front of the church and christened into an unfortunate journey. First, messages of hope and love taught in Sunday school were ripped from its young heart by hypocritical parents. It was taught that life and death were in the power of the tongue yet this lesson […]
Anyone who has ever sat in a college sociology class learns about the role of public education in socializing or programming people to accept the norms and values of a society. No government offers education for benevolent reasons but for the strict purposes of creating loyal productive citizens who help bolster the nation in world […]
At core of a every woman is a little girl who wants to be adored and appreciated. When I see a sista sexually exploiting herself I see a diseased little girl who wasn’t loved. I see a woman who has been emotionally and spiritually disabled by the harsh blows of society and fatherly neglect. Whats worst […]
I may never give you the note in your head But I can be the inspiration f0r your song I can be the melody in your heart and the harmony in your soul…..
Once again we are arguing just as friends often do. But this argument is different than the 20 before. This time we agree & we know it but simply cant stop. I say your being disrespectful & you apologize. I say your being condensending & you tell me how sincerely intelligent I am. Your saying […]
“Love so many people use your name in vain”-Musiq Soulchild I have bee through utter hell in my divorce, but as Psalm 127:1 says “Unless the Lord builds a house, the laborers labor in vain”. The emotional & financial costs have been staggering and are still being accrued as I’m writing. I have never […]
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Broken promises had deeply lacerated my heart, leaving a gaping wound of betrayal and rejection. I stumbled in darkness, crying out to the Creator to free me from this fallen world and let death be the remedy for my pain. The Lord refused to answer my cry, reminding me the bitter cup of […]
My eyes blurred with the pain of betrayal of an African Man. 400 years and the Middle Passage couldn’t change his nature. The nature that caused him to sell my ancestors into slavery The nature that causes him to objectify women in his own land The nature that caused him to brutalize his own […]
May 9, 2011 12:15 pm I completed my first year of conservatory training with only finals and a jury left to go. Background (skip this part if you don’t like grimey melodrama) In August of 99 as a newlywed student at The University of Virginia, I pawned my trumpet at the insistence of my […]