I was getting sick and tired of all the white men saying that my butt was too big and the Hispanic men thinking I was Hispanic and then getting mad whenever they spoke Spanish to me and I couldn’t return the favor or when they asked me what country I was from and I proudly [...]
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When I met Marielito I had just turned 16 years old and had recently moved back in with my mother because I couldn’t handle my stepfathers idea of rules and guidelines. I was used to running wild and doing whatever I wished because my mother was more interested in her weird relationships with her various [...]
Writing my book hasn’t been easy. Sometimes I didn’t even know why I was doing it. I felt like I was doing it for the children – especially the little girls that might be going through what I went through. Maybe it was for the women who had been through what I had been through. [...]
It was Saturday morning during the summer and I had just finished putting the rubber bands around all of the newspapers I had to deliver on my paper-route. I shoved the newspapers into my big canvas pouch that read “Columbus Dispatch” in big neon orange colors and headed out the door. My dogs, Lady and [...]
I left the house bundled up like an Eskimo and headed to school. It was freezing cold outside. I had on my new, rabbit-fur lined boots. I loved those boots. They were fluffy outside and knee high. Mom tried to get me practical boots that were big, ugly and waterproof but I wasn’t having that. [...]
When I was growing up, my mother was pretty damn broke and we ate a lot of baloney sandwiches. I was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio in an all African American, poor neighborhood. My sister and I were what they called back in the day “high-Yellow”. During the summer, the local swimming pool served [...]
Approximately 9 years ago in April of 2000, my friend, we will call her Glo, and I were headed to South Beach to go see a friend of mines open up for the rap group Mobb Deep. Anthony asked me to be there early so that I could go on stage with them and help [...]
This Fourth of July I decided to do something I rarely do. My close neighbors, a very nice, older Jamaican couple always ask me come by and join them whenever they have a cookout or family get-together, so I decided to take them up on their offer. I usually don’t join them because I’m not [...]
After Grandma died, everybody in the family went haywire. I never realized that Mom wasn’t really around that much, because I loved Grandma so much that it didn’t matter to me one way or another. Aunt Gretchen started drinking really bad. Aunt Mary started shooting Heroine. My favorite cousin became a pimp. And me, well [...]
I went on MySpace to maintain my page as I typically do on any given Monday or Tuesday evening. I go to my “friend’s request” link and I proceed to click on the “select all” button at the bottom of the page. This day was not unlike any other Monday or Tuesday and I probably [...]