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Being Precious
In 1996, as I read Sapphire’s graphic and idiosyncratic novel Push, I was in agony. Too much of Claireece Precious Jones’ life was cutting me to the bone and there were times when picking up the novel felt like visiting an all too familiar insane asylum. You see, my mother said things like to me [...]
Read moreMama Shouldn’t Say Knock You Out
Charles Hamilton must be waking up this morning praying for a better day after facing ridicule yesterday from all corners of the web. I was pretty late to this myself, but comments like the quote above made my back hunch up. After following a Twitter conversation started by the writer Toure on the incident, I [...]
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