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an author on my tbr list: Octavia Butler --- (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known African-American women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. Women In History, Black History, Fiction Writer, Fiction Quotes, African Diaspora, Before Us
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an author on my tbr list: Octavia Butler --- (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known African-American women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.
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Banished vividly recounts the forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americas were driven from their homes and communities by violent racist mobs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In fear for their lives, black people left these towns and never returned to reclaim their property. The film features black families determined to go to any length to reconstruct their families past and gain some justice for their ancestors and themselves. Black Children's Books, American Women, Heer, We Are The World, Black Families
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Banished vividly recounts the forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americas were driven from their homes and communities by violent racist mobs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In fear for their lives, black people left these towns and never returned to reclaim their property. The film features black families determined to go to any length to reconstruct their families past and gain some justice for their ancestors and themselves.
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Barbara Kingsolver- a powerful writer that has filled many long hours for me. The beauty pours out through her language in a way a could never create. Flight Behavior, Best Selling Novels, Barbara Kingsolver, Freelance Writing, Writing Career, Hair Starting, Ageless Beauty, Going Gray, Aging Gracefully
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Barbara Kingsolver- a powerful writer that has filled many long hours for me. The beauty pours out through her language in a way a could never create.
Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Mary Shelley, Maria Callas, Tilda Swinton, Great Women, Amazing Women, Brigitte Bardot, Ute Lemper, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren
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Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist African American Clothing, American Apparel, American Fashion, American Life, Native American, Harlem Renaissance, Renaissance Literature, Renaissance Artists
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Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist
James Baldwin (1924-1987) - His autobiographical bildungsroman first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain was a pivotal advancement in the forward-thinking civil rights movement. It showcased an introspective personal tabula rasa perspective that questioned racial and sexual issues and the pressures they imposed. The playwright, essayist and novelist essentially paved the way for every post 60′s civil rights era writer on this list. Dylan Thomas Poems, James Baldwin, African American Culture, Famous Black, Book Writer, New People, Civil Rights
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James Baldwin (1924-1987) - His autobiographical bildungsroman first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain was a pivotal advancement in the forward-thinking civil rights movement. It showcased an introspective personal tabula rasa perspective that questioned racial and sexual issues and the pressures they imposed. The playwright, essayist and novelist essentially paved the way for every post 60′s civil rights era writer on this list.
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JUNE JORDAN (1936-2002) was one of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed African-American writers of her generation. A poet, playwright, speaker, teacher, journalist and essayist Jordan was also known for her fierce commitment to human rights political activism. Her influential voice defined the cutting edge of both American poetry and politics during the Civil Rights Movement. African American Writers, African American Women, American Literature, Black Lesbians, American Poetry
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JUNE JORDAN (1936-2002) was one of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed African-American writers of her generation. A poet, playwright, speaker, teacher, journalist and essayist Jordan was also known for her fierce commitment to human rights political activism. Her influential voice defined the cutting edge of both American poetry and politics during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Marita Odette Bonner (Occomy) was an African American writer, essayist, and playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance Era. She attended Radcliffe University, a gifted pianist, founder of the Boston area chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and author of "Being Young-A Woman- And Colored", a 1925 essay published in The Crisis negro newsmagazine. African Americans, Harlem Renaissance Writers, Renaissance Era, Afro
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Marita Odette Bonner (Occomy) was an African American writer, essayist, and playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance Era. She attended Radcliffe University, a gifted pianist, founder of the Boston area chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and author of "Being Young-A Woman- And Colored", a 1925 essay published in The Crisis negro newsmagazine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Book Authors, Grands Philosophes, Jose Luis Sampedro, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, People Of Interest
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
Mary Shelley - (1797-1851) (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a n English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel 'Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus' (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. George Sand, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley Quotes, The Modern Prometheus, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Frankenstein Halloween, Mary Wollstonecraft, Rolodex
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Mary Shelley - (1797-1851) (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a n English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel 'Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus' (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes..."Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is like a broken winged bird that cannot fly." Langston Hughes
Here's Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense by Linda Tirado for Huffington Post An insightful essay on how the working poor think and cope. A must read. ~melanye Essayist, Perfect Sense, Poor People, Social Work, Social Issues, Inequality, Go Fund Me, Sociology, Make Sense
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Here's Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense by Linda Tirado for Huffington Post An insightful essay on how the working poor think and cope. A must read. ~melanye
American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is among the most influential poets in American literature, and is known by many as the "Father of Free Verse." Much of his work was considered controversial during his lifetime, especially the collection Leaves of Grass, which includes sexual references many deemed obscene at the time. Walt Whitman, Whitman Poems, Colorized Historical Photos, Colorized History, Historical Pics, Black White Photos, Black And White, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation
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American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is among the most influential poets in American literature, and is known by many as the "Father of Free Verse." Much of his work was considered controversial during his lifetime, especially the collection Leaves of Grass, which includes sexual references many deemed obscene at the time.
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NOVELIST & ESSAYIST Not just for being an important and inventive modern novelist, but for reminding us, in A Room of One's Own, of what remarkable things women might have written throughout history if they hadn't been too burdened by household cares and society's restrictions. Vanessa Bell, Margaret Sanger, Vita Sackville West, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf Biography, Famous Women, Famous People
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Virginia Woolf 1882 - 1941 NOVELIST & ESSAYIST Not just for being an important and inventive modern novelist, but for reminding us, in A Room of One's Own, of what remarkable things women might have written throughout history if they hadn't been too burdened by household cares and society's restrictions.
"I was expected to be some expert on multicultural affairs, as if multiculturalism is a genre of fiction or something, whereas it's just a fact of life. A white male writer is never asked to be a spokesman for anything: he has complete artistic freedom." Zadie Smith Nasty People, Zadie Smith, Truth And Dare, Essay Contests, Story Writer, Uteruses Before Duderuses, Pep Talks, Life Facts
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"I was expected to be some expert on multicultural affairs, as if multiculturalism is a genre of fiction or something, whereas it's just a fact of life. A white male writer is never asked to be a spokesman for anything: he has complete artistic freedom." Zadie Smith