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MY NEW BOOK: "I Am" now available online

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    I am woman Every time I pick myself up from the world knocking me off my feet, I become even stronger I cook, I clean, I love, I work, I bare the children and raise them up sometimes by myself with no thank you apparently because I am woman I want to cry, give up, fight back, condemn, scream out but I can’t they said because I am woman! How can the same power that I hold be used to condemn the abundance, in which I maintain but they say it’s because I am woman I have built countries, kept families together, been the back bone of every song you sing but I guess I am not human. Because I am woman I too want to cry out for help, ask my daddy to just say I love you, I honor you, I am here… I too want to have the power to walk away from my responsibilities, love with no strings… I too want to praise and worship God and not have to worry about what you think… I too want to be okay with just beans and rice and live in my bullshit like life has no price

R.I.P. Maya Angelou

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Yes i know you are thinking, " girl you are lateboots !" Actually I am not! At least for me.  I never really knew Maya Angelou as a person outside of what i saw and read on Tv or in magazines but she has truly inspired my life and therefore this post is right on time for me. Outside of my mom, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and Malcolm x, Maya Angelou has been a hugeee inspiration to my life. We share so many similarities in our childhood experiences that she was my light at the end of the tunnel. When I first heard of her passing I couldn’t stop the tears from fuming down my face. Like I literally couldn't not get out of bed for hours. ( Shit, I am in tears as I type this .) Maya Angelou holds a very special place in my heart not for just her writing abilities or her poetry but she has always inspired me to not just be a light but also to see the light no matter how dark it gets. And trust me, it has gotten dark. I used to watch interviews of her and the little