There comes a time in life when we must step outside of ourselves & ask an honest question: What is our purpose? Why are we doing what we do? For the love? For the money? For the fame? I had to ask myself these questions when it came to this blog. This is why I haven’t posted a new piece in almost two years. I've done plenty of writing in this duration of time, but posting it felt forced. I caught myself worrying too much about the opinion of others. It impeded & stifled my creativity. I questioned everything I wrote & it's validity in the space I created for myself. Along with that, my personal growth in this same span of time radically changed my train of thought. I questioned everything around me, and the contradictions showed in my work. At first, I thought it was a bad thing. In hindsight, I realized that it's all a part of progression. If growth isn't seen in your craft, than what's the use of perfecting it? Also, why should you suppress y...
A survivor of the Public Education Industrial Complex influenced by Black culture & the cruel realities of being Black in an anti-Black world.