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    The Blackness In Me: Poetic Lessons of Life from Cleveland to Accra
    The Blackness In Me: Poetic Lessons of Life from Cleveland to Accra
    The Blackness In Me: Poetic Lessons of Life from Cleveland to Accra
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    The Blackness In Me: Poetic Lessons of Life from Cleveland to Accra

    By Michelle Dornor

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    The Blackness in Me: Lessons of Life from Cleveland to Accra is a collection of intimate poetry about the author's personal experience while being Black in America and abroad. 

    Written from the divine feminine perspective, it contains prose that will make you laugh, make you cry, and get you stirred to action. The celebration and hist

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDornor Consulting LLC
    Release dateJun 8, 2022
    ISBN9798986430515
    The Blackness In Me: Poetic Lessons of Life from Cleveland to Accra
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    Michelle Dornor

    Michelle proudly served her country as a United States Air Force military member during Desert Storm and Desert Shield. She currently works as a Sales Professional for a Fortune 500 Tech company for the past 12 years and has more than 30 years of experience in sales and customer service.

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      The Blackness In Me - Michelle Dornor

      THE BLACKNESS

      IN ME

      POETIC LESSONS OF LIFE FROM CLEVELAND TO ACCRA

      WRITTEN BY:

      MICHELLE DORNOR

      COPYRIGHT

      Copyright©2022 Dornor Consulting LLC

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2022

      Special Edition, Juneteenth 2022

      Dornor Consulting Publishing

      Cheyenne, Wyoming

      http://dornorconsulting.services

      All images/photographs are author’s personal photos except where notated free use via Pexels.com & may not be used without prior written consent from publisher & author.

      Dedication

      To the little Black girl in me who never gave up and dared to think she could, so she did…

      Why I wrote this book

      Akwaaba! Means welcome in the Akan language of Ghana. I wrote this book to share my experiences of growing up as a Black woman in the ghettos of America to traveling the world and walking through the door of return while visiting the homeland of my ancestors, Mama Africa… West Africa, Ghana.

      MY ASK

      My hope is that the words contained herein will encourage your spirit to

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