JOURNALS OF JO

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

I’m in a mood. And it isn’t because the cycle of life is upon me. It’s because the cycle of life is ever upon me.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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