Joshunda Sanders's Blog, page 55
June 13, 2013
Father Time
Wounds need air to heal. Time, though, is the master.
I am used to cheap ways of telling time. Where...
I am used to cheap ways of telling time. Where...
June 9, 2013
"What kind of writer am I? On a good day, I am a writer who writes. Who gets out of my own way. Who..."
“What kind of writer am I? On a good day, I am a writer who writes. Who gets out of my own...
June 8, 2013
afrosandprose:
“My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it...
afrosandprose:
“My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it...
“My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it...
May 30, 2013
"So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting
for someone to bring you..."
“So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting
for someone to...
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting
for someone to...
January 4, 2013
thepenguinpress:
“In my own reading life, I’ve been pulled...
“In my own reading life, I’ve been pulled first in one direction, then in the other. Reading has always been my passion, my pleasure, and I am constitutionally drawn to any thesis that gives power to readers, increasing their freedom of movement. But when I became a writer, writing became my discipline, my practice, and I felt the need to believe in it as an intentional, directional act, an expression of an individual consciousness.”
-Zadie Smith, “Rereading Barthes and Nabokov...
"The Time Is Now offers a weekly writing prompt (we’ll post a poetry prompt on Tuesdays, a fiction..."
“The Time Is Now offers a weekly writing prompt (we’ll post a poetry prompt on Tuesdays, a...
artof-poetry:
1969, the Free Breakfast for School Children...
1969, theFree Breakfast for School Children Programwas initiated at St. Augustine’s Church in Oakland by theBlack Panther Party. The Panthers would cook and serve food to the poor inner city youth of the area.
"She is in love with a manchild from the Pit, a part of town where they all live on the Gulf, Bois..."
“She is in love with a manchild from the Pit, a part of town where they all live on the Gulf,...
January 3, 2013
"You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you..."
“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy....
