"It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first." - James Baldwin
"Improvisation, composition, writing, painting, theater, invention, all creative acts are forms of play, the starting place of creativity in the human growth cycle, and one of the great primal life functions. Without play, learning and evolution are impossible."
"We think that creation is good and destruction is bad. But you can't have massive amounts of creativity without massive amounts of destructivity." - Arnie Cooper
To my fellow writers, I was posed with the following question in my Memoir Workshop class, and now I offer it to you.
"What would you write if you weren't afraid?"
I remember being a Dunbar student and trying to figure out college. Now, I'm collecting degrees like infinity stones. Starting the MFA program at @UBaltCAS today. #GodDid
What up! It's been awhile since I've been in these Baltimore streets posted up with my book.
Catch me at Urban Reads Bookstore for the Youth Summit and Back to School Rally Block Party on Saturday, August 20th from 12-4pm.
In 1998, I broke a few rules, listened to DMX, and was trying to figure myself out as a Black boy. This is my confession (in my best Usher voice). 😅
https://t.co/Cun5ztpAwq