"Don't give me that Bible bologna " a flash of anger sparked from each one of Patricia's words. "If He's so mighty and powerful, tell me why He let my daddy leave me? Tell me why He let my uncle molest me and my momma's boyfriends touch on me? Why did He leave me in a hotel room covered in my own blood after my supposed to be best friend, Rodney, raped me? Why did He make me go my whole life being blamed for being raped? Even the Pastor blamed me and called me loose. My own Momma disowned me and called me a liar. She won't even talk to me to this day I spent my whole life trynna live right...

Poignant, heart wrenching, direct, and controversial, Children of the Mud will rouse you to respond to the fight of injustice as it creatively examines the depth of race, racism, and lost in this finely crafted piece. The reader is transported through time with pieces written from the 1970s to modern day.

Jersey is a spoiled rotten"momma's girl;" and the wife of an up-and-coming pastor. She and her family moved in with her mother, Theresa, who is a very dominating force in Jersey's life. Will the pressures of pleasing her mother cause her to lose out on the one good thing that God chose for her.

This study will explore how the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to the current genre called, "Hip Hop" yet, due to its inability to establish its mission, vision, and purpose as a movement, the Harlem Renaissance died as swiftly as it boomed, leaving the state of Hip Hop likened unto a neglected orphan without a blueprint for success.

Cocaine Obsession will explore the nature of and perception of cocaine in its native land prior to European exploitation, its importation to North America (as well as its initial popularity), its prohibition in North America, triggers/withdrawals/health risks and where cocaine is today. I plan to explore Cocaine's migration in 2006 via self-reported interviews with individuals whom are chronic users (either socially or on-going). My desire is that you, the reader, ask yourself this one question as you read this report: if cocaine had and continues to have medicinal purposes, termed as a...

I am convinced that the greatest war that we find ourselves engaged in is the conflicts of mind and soul. It is such a tremendous contest of will that it is difficult to know where the enemy actually exists. We are often deceived into believing that his legions of destruction have surrounded us from without, when in fact, they are insidiously attacking us from within. The demons of worry and anxiety, the imps of arrogance and over-confidence, the psychological warriors of frustration and depression, the mental assailants of sorrow and regret, and the spiritual snipers of fear and doubt all...

This book is dedicated to every artist who's ever heard the words, "You will get paid," and endearingly accepted the task and challenge of spilling out their heart, creativity, and time only to find out that there was no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. This book is dedicated to the artistic hearts whom deems themselves a failure because the world does not see your worth. This book is to encourage you and inspire you to continue to be you. Never mind the broken promises cause one day, YOU WILL GET PAID.