Black Excellence Month: Day 1

Audre Lorde

Black Feminist Visionary Warrior Lesbian Poet 
1934 - 1992

 

 "I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable."

 -Audre Lorde

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Recommended Reading:

•  Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Uses Of The Erotic: The Erotic As Power by Audre Lorde
• The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
• Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux
•  Indo-Caribbean Feminisms and Heteronormativity http://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/march2013/journals/Pragg.pdf
•  Conversations with Audre Lorde by Joan Wylie Hall
• The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

I read Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name last year on a train ride from New York to Florida. It holds a special place in my heart. Her writing is so beautiful and touching. I feel so grateful to get a glimpse into her younger life. I felt a great connection to her in this book. It reminds me that I come from greatness and of the unique struggles of the women who lived before me for I would not be who I am today if it were not for them. It left me completely inspired.

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Recommended Watching:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMvnxxFhbM
•  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_KYZkRY9pA 
•  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBD4VRqnh4
•  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diHzbQNyO2k

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Links:

• ·      http://alp.org/
• ·      http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/audre-lorde

 

smile.

I had a good day. I hope you did too.
I was looking back at older posts and I want to share some things.
Flashback of hope

The Waiting Room

"I think Mother Nature has a cure for most everything...'cept human nature..."

So this week, I had to read a play called The Waiting Room. I had to read it as part of my women's study class, the female experience in America. I just finished the play. It wasn't too long, only about 75 pages but it carries a phenomenal impact. I mean, I am so excited that I had the chance to read the book. I learned so many things that I kind of already knew. It's like I gained a new persepctive on things that I though I had an awesome perspective on already. Also, I totally cried. I love books and movies that make me cry. To me, that means they hit a special place deep inside of me. Which I think is awesome it's crazy sometimes to think that books are so powerful. they don't have arms or legs and they don't have brains or anything but they have the power to reach into and sometimes just become apart of you and I think that's so marvelous.

In the play, there were a lot of instant favorite lines for me. Lines that I read, and I was just like, wow....this needs to be shared asap! So that's what I'm going to do. I hope everyone could get the chance to read this play and see it, hopefully, like I saw it.

songs I love

These are all songs are songs that I love that mean a lot to me. I love the lyrics and I can just listen to them when my heart needs to smile or when my mind is going crazy and I just need to relaaaaxxxx.

I graduated!!! c/o 2010!

I did it! Kudos to the class of 2010! It feels good to have finally made it through those 4 years of that high school chapter. It was quite the experience.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. I'm so happy all of my fellow class of 2010 graduates! We did it and now we're in the real world. Well we're kind of taking our first steps into the real world but we made it through about 13 years of school, I think we do more. We're strong enough. This is evidence :)

I know that I'm going to miss everyone but I know that I've learned something from all of the people that I've met over the past four years. Everything is a lessoned learned. I've had positive moments in high school and I've learned from them and I've had negative moments and I've learned from them too.

Anywhooo....it was a great experience. I smiled a LOT!...and laughed a lot. I was in the front row and after we went across the stage we had to wait for what felt like a million more rows to walk across the stage so I heard a lot of jokes and we had a bunch of random conversations. It was fun.

Most importantly, I think I'm ready for the next step. There is no turning back now. I have a flippin high school dimploma. I'm a happy zebra. I wish all my fellow classmates the best of luck. I know you'll all do amazingly well. you're freaking fantastic...obviously...we made it!!

everything is gonna be okay.

"something tells me you'll be fine. the strength inside of you is gonna shine."

I'm so proud :)

My little nugget, my baby brother graduated from kindergarten today! He did so well, he was so excited and so were we. I just loved seeing how happy those little children were. The whole world lies before them waiting to be explored, understood, loved, and experienced. They have the power the make this world wonderful as long as they believe in themselves and I saw that in their eyes and in their smiles. They're ready to take big steps!!

GMH♥

It's been a while since I visited givesmehope.com. I don't know why though, the stories are so amazing! I do know however that when I first started visiting there were only about 30 pages of stories, now there are over 250 pages. I think I have a lot of reading to do. I won't be hard and I won't mind because the stories are truly beautiful! Some of them have actually made me cry before. Here is on I thought was really beautiful.

"Freshman year, there was a crippled girl bound to a wheelchair. For 4 years, she did physical therapy and progressed to crutches. When we graduated a few weeks ago, she handed her crutches to an officer and walked across the entire stage. The applause from the seniors was deafening. She cried the whole way. GMH"