Super Nerdy Church Girl
A little nerdy, a little churchy, and a little flirty
Category: Books
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Sean Combs aka P. Diddy won a NAACP Image Award for his role of Walter Lee in the TV production of A Raisin in the Sun and drew some criticism. You know the whole rapper/actor thing. Before we get into that, a little background. Lorraine Hansberry wrote Raisin in 1959 at time prior to the…
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. . Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enough is a choreopoem written by Ntozake Shange. This play started as a series of poems written by Shange, that organically grew through performances and additions into the work of art that eventually made it to Broadway in 1976 earning numerous awards including an Obie and a Tony.…
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I am a fan of women of the ’70s era. It was a time when black women were in starring roles of films absent of lace-fronts and full of style. Pam Grier, the queen of what has become known as the blaxploitation era, is still 35 years later, making moves. Currently, Grier is penning a…
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Let me preface this entry by stating, I do not watch the Wendy Williams Show. I have heard of her antics and she is not a nice woman. In this public exchange between she and Omarosa, Williams has come out as the victim. I totally disagree. Let me back track a little. Omarosa was on…
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Awakening from her daze, Tameka took a quick self evaluation. Purse, check. Keys, check. Hair, check. What had happened? Had she fainted? She felt strangely different. She hated different. “Damn!” she exclaimed as she positioned herself behind the steering wheel. “I’ve got this green goop all over my new shoes.” As Tameka made her way…
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is my most favorite novel in the entire world. I read this book when I was about 12 and knew at that moment that I wanted to be a writer. It has taken many years and detours to realizing that dream but I can say, thank God,…