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Ivory Simone

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Born

Roswell, New Mexico

Website

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ivorysimone

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences

James Baldwin, Walter Whitman, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor ...more

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December 2010

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Ivory Simone is a writer and poet based out of Bangkok, Thailand. Havaus Means Blue Water is her first novel. In addition, she's the author of "The Rainy, Season, The Poems, Prose and Writings of Ivory SImone", a poetry and prose chapbook. She is the host of Bangkok Poetry Streams, a podcast series devoted to the reading and enjoyment of poetry and prose. She's also the host of popular the blogtalk radio show "Take A Bite Out The Big Mango". A show about expat lifestyles, art, personalities, good conversation about the happenings in and around the Bangkok.

Ms. Simone is a social justice advocate who started a project called the onewoman/onehouse project to build a home for a family in Haiti. She also launched a face book campaign to raise aw ...more

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Living In The Shadow Of A Black Housemaid: A Different View of “The Help”

My maternal grandmother, great-grandmother and great-Aunt worked as domestics for white families in the South. My grandmother or “Big Mama” as she insisted we call her cleaned houses the old-fashioned way—on her hands and knees. In fact, I think about Big Mama whenever I see my knees. I now have dark patches of skin on them, age-related hyper-pigmentation. My grandmother’s knees were dark, almost Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 17, 2011 01:07 • Tags: class, gender, race, the-help

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	Havasu Means Blue Water by Ivory Simone (Goodreads Author), Lola Rainey (Photographer) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Otis Shimely's Dangerous Brain it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bangkok Poetry Streams Presents, The Rainy Season, The Poems, Prose and Writings of Ivory Simone it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

by Mary S. Lovell

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Aug 17, 2011 01:13AM

Quotes by Ivory Simone (?)

“We humans need one another. We live in a big house with many rooms. Right now our home is on fire. If you're going to try to put out the fire, you've got to first agree on one fundamental point--everyone in the house is worth saving.”
― Ivory Simone

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