Blood at the Root

by LaDarrion Williams

It’s a funny thing about smells and how they can trigger memories you’ve tucked away for so long.

It’s a whole lotta witchcraft and niggatry in this bitch.

LOL

“America got ninety-nine problems, but the truth ain’t one.”

Chancellor Taron really got me at this magical-ass HBCU, taking regular classes like algebra?

‘We as a people always had to make a kingdom out of nothing.’ A kingdom built on the bones and the river of blood from those who came before us, and those who comes after.”

Resilience is a form of magic…that’s in our blood, chile, and that’s somethin’ they ain’t gon’ neva take away. Ya

Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men was

“We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us.”