Everyone wants to go home. It is not morbid to want death, only that death brings freedom. Freedom to be exactly who you are. There is no choice about when is the right time. Life sometimes feels like one is stuck. Fixated to one point in time. How can we find freedom when we are […]
We are the bringers of news to America. We are the voices of the people. We experience the toil of the earth, the woes of labor, the disenchantment of everyday things. Every movement, every calling, every revolution starts at our feet. Yet. And I say yet painfully. We are rarely the bearer of such things. […]
After conducting a workshop at the Building Balance New School Social Justice Conference, I realize that there is a fork in the road. This is good news because I have been feeling overwhelmingly tired. Not sure where the tiredness comes from but I have an idea that social justice is crying like a child that […]
A month has passed and this is not the first time I attempt to articulate and summarize what happened amongst a small group of 12 diverse participants who took a risk, flipped a switch, traveled to Harlem, 125th Street to talk about working together across race and class for change. Several things went wrong and […]
The motivation is not the sameIt is not my voice that I seekBut the voice of another, my adversaryNot my friend, HopeBut the imprisoned me. With all my might I reach and stretchInto strength I pull with clenched teethStand as I may to fight your good fight-I cannot and I’m failed again.Just another borrowed claim-Underground […]
Over a long and lazy holiday weekend my mother told me that as a child I spent hours on end locked in my room reading, reading, reading and writing, too. She always felt, she added matter-of-factly, that I’d grow up to be a writer. In the midst of preparing a day after Christmas meal where […]
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