"I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive." -Octavia Butler
"That one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood...When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes all we have is our dreams, and sometimes dreams come true. Thank God I can still dream...
I am a literary fiction writer, essayist, professor, and scholar of English and Literature. I am primarily an Americanist with degrees in American literature and American culture. I teach college Composition, Rhetoric, and Literature. Many of my posts and much of my fiction interrogate the notion of race in America. Since one of my primary interests is black female identity, I also discuss the politics of black women's hair. I display my work in a way that I hope inspires readers to think and write. It is my hope that this space will serve as both a source of discussion and reference for my colleagues and my students about language and literature as well as discourse about society, culture, rhetoric, and the human condition.
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