Journals of Jo: Euphoria
These cats weren't ever your friends and they never invited you to the table.
They always fed you and me, scraps from it when we were h
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Journals of Jo: Who Gives A...
WHO GIVES A Sometimes you'll feel like you're being used. You'll want to lash out at the world and curse at strangers just because they...
Journals of Jo: I Feel Like That Girl
I've spent my entire life trying to be better than where I came from. Where I'm from, the girls there, don't usually make it out of the...
CONSCIOUS THOUGHT
But the real work hadn't started. In the weeks, months and years that followed the work we thought would be done, had still gone undone.
MOMMA SAID,"IF I HAVE TO REPEAT MYSELF..."
There were days when you could hear my momma yelling at the top her voice so that any one of her fourteen children would answer her and do w
PREDATOR
It’s all he cares about when he rises from his nights slumber.
After he’s devoured all that there is from his kill.
The remains lying close
WHITE PRIVILEGE/BLACK HISTORY
You looked at us as we marched and yelled in righteous indignation, crying out for justice. Begging to be seen and heard by deaf ears.
There
WHEN I WAS A YOUNGER
When the time came and I did get solitude and quiet,
I was filled with fear and anxiety and I couldn’t wait to be in that crowd of people ca
BE GENTLE IN YOUR JUDGEMENT OF ME
BE GENTLE IN YOUR JUDGMENT OF ME When you take a look at my life and you see every little minute, infinitesimal, moment of every little...
IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN
It's not easy being green. That's what Kermit "the frog", said on television one night when I was a kid. Maybe I was a teen. I don't...
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