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black women: ready for our flowers

I’m thinkin’ we go about life not reflecting on it all that much, because if we did — when we do — we’d be paralyzed by what’s really going on (frfr) and then everything would stop. Work unfinished, meals uncooked, homework incomplete, dirty things unclean, movements un-fought. A few years ago I wrote and posted a poemContinue reading “black women: ready for our flowers”

aretha

Happy birthday, Ms. Franklin! Like millions of viewers, I’ve recently completed watching “Genius: Aretha” produced on the National Geographic channel, and streamed on Hulu. While many people have been upset about how this production covered her life, since I did not know her personally, I do not know enough about her actual life to compareContinue reading “aretha”

Bigger Picture

sometimes, just sometimes i wish someone had my back like i have theirs someone at least as capable as me to handle it ALL someone other than another black woman i birthed the world do i have to carry it too? #BlackWomanInTheWorld (c) 2017 candi dugas, llc

Measure with Love

“Beneatha: Love him? There is nothing left to love. Mama: There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. (Looking at her) Have you cried for that boy today? I don’t mean for yourself and for the family ’cause we lost the money. I mean for him:Continue reading “Measure with Love”

Wondering: Large & Small

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the moreContinue reading “Wondering: Large & Small”