MOMMA SAID, "THAT'S ALL WE GOT"
I looked into the pot to see what was cooking and all I saw was water... Momma was putting in all sorts of spices... when I asked her about
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Journals of Jo: Don't you Dare Make Me Happy
After waiting up for hours and hours until the sun came up over the horizon of the tall buildings in this dark city where we live and where
Journals of Jo: White Privilege/Black History
You have the power to make the powers that be see me as a human being.
You have the power to turn the tide of racism to love and acceptance
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 Bright: The Pledge
Because it’s never my intention to hurt anyone but to open people up to a better expression of themselves.
I won’t back down and cower befor
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...
It's My Vagina
If I could rip my own heart from my chest and show everyone the blood that courses through it.
Point out where the veins meet the artery,
Dear Daddy
I miss that you weren’t there for my first day of kindergarten. The first time I scraped my knee.
The first time I wore my first party dres
YOU DON'T KNOW ME
You don’t know me
Because you’re not ready for me.
I’m sage advice.
I’m a life lived.
I’m the light in the tunnel.
I’m the friend when you
A NEW NORMAL
But that very moment when you accept for a certainty that the loss, that it's real and permanent,
your life changes.
Sometimes it’s subt
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