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Paging Mr. Black Who never seems to get back to me How wack to be one of the many play things you have played wit Sit at the pit of my stomach Filled with eaten up memories And undigested obsessions Acidic confessions Permanent heart burn Paging Mr. Black Please crack the secret of love Shove that which is infinite onto my finite answering machine In between the beep a woman screams Your little girls seek fathers in fatherless little boys Shattered and destroyed they treat their toys better th… Continue

Flipping through CD’s I see these Images of who I am, was and could be Eve told me love was blind and I couldn’t find such ignorance to be my way Till the day I sat down with Lauryn and we spoke of mutual miseducation In silent contemplation she killed me softly with Her words and verbs slid down my eyes as Hill merged into Jill Scott who Shot the sky and let love rain down on me Like Indie.Arie I was so ready for love and brown skin Spinnin’ in the rhymes of The Roots and Ursula Rucker I listen… Continue

Slowly he eased into the question Are you bitter he asked? Quickly disgusted by the one I trusted I thought, bitter? Bitter, bitta Think you think I think I'm a bit betta Than everyone else now that everyone else has become my enemy Villain she who overcomes all odds and forgets the act of forgetting Never letting one piece of her pain go Pity though she be - I be the victim I be a bitter one at that Are you bitter he asked? Bitter betta feeling a bit under the weather Black man you better tast… Continue

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I wanted to share my book, 'A Better Today Brings a Brighter Tomorrow', it is a resource guide for Black Parents and Minority Students highlighting the various free and affordable programs available to urban students from pre-college programs to internships,… Continue