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Gregory D. Carr
History. His story? Whose story? My storywhat Ive witnessed! I have a dream, was not my story. By any means necessary, was not my story. Crossing the Edmund Pettis Bridge, was not my story. My stor...view moreHistory. His story? Whose story? My storywhat Ive witnessed! I have a dream, was not my story. By any means necessary, was not my story. Crossing the Edmund Pettis Bridge, was not my story. My story is being the twelfth child of a married couple from the Delta of Greenville, Mississippi that moved to Chicago, then Gary, Indiana, in the late 1940s. My story is their 8th and 10th grade educations. My story is about them cobbling out an upbringing for all sixteen of their children, even though one died just a few days after birth. As I pen this ode of homage to them, Ive lost three more of that original sixteen. Oh yes, this is my story.
Hand-me-downs? You better believe it! Meager subsistence living? Yep! Knocked down many times, yet answering the bell after each? Take it to the bank! Evicted? Absolutely! We were the very caricature of heads being bloody, but unbowed. My story is about growing lush vegetation, in the aftermath of the tsunami. This is my storymy life pages.
Our literary ancestrythe proverbial family tree, if you willis heavily laden with low hanging fruit. If we dont harvest it now, it will fall to the earth and rot. I will prevent it from falling, because Id be unable to bear the stench of its decay. This fruit is sweet and delectable; it is the life blood to us. The smallest and newest buds are our children. If its not nourished and harvested in a timely fashion, that fruit will parish, without exception.
What fruit? Tyler Perry, Carter G. Woodson, James Baldwin, Oprah, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou. Oh, the wafting of sweet aromas. This book is underpinned by these luminaries, and their life struggles that preamble their subsequent eminence. Accordingly, the following volume of poetry seeks to send a powerful message of struggles and successes, emphasizing inner-city tumults, faith, family, and future for African Americans. This is Life Pages.view less