Letters, stories, extemporaneous cries after losing Steele: my intimate partner, best friend and business partner.
Sometime in 2008, I was so stressed out I tried to eat myself, physically. Stress is toxic. It was the poison feeding Steele’s cancer and my high blood pressure. This is the conversation I had with a friend about it. “When Steele and I get in fights or we have ‘issues’ I cannot function properly. It drives me crazy. Until …
Imagine how difficult something as simple as a name made it for Africans in the New World to be Africans. Imagine if the Europeans were a little more imaginative and a lot more enlightened and instead of naming the Caribbean the West Indies they named it the West of West Africa. With a simple name change centuries ago it could …
{youtubejw}NURJhjJAajU{/youtubejw} African men get a bad rap. They overpopulate our prisons, and our politics, and they receive the brunt of the blame for all of our problems. Everyone is constantly trying to fix the African man and whatever he does, he feels not good enough. The world’s war on the African man has obscured the real tragedy, which is the …
I finally created my ancestor altar. I was stalling for a little while, not sure why, but one day the spirit just moved me to go in the backyard and find stuff to put it together. Using two cement blocks and a white cloth, I created a little tabletop for a candle, calabash with water, old man’s beard, sand, shells, …
I have a slight problem. In a weird way, my spiritual awakening is bringing out my sensuality. I never knew my feminine energy could be so sensual and alluring, to myself that is. It is like I am loving myself even more with this new awareness. I feel the feminine Goddess awakening in me.