His praying knees became weapons, so he learned to pray with his feet He jumped on his wagon and sold salt during the Revolutionary War. He preached to all who would listen, “Let’s study war no more.” His praying knees became weapons, so he learned to pray with his feet …

Candrice Jones’s play FLEX, named for a basketball play, tells the story of people whose lives aren’t often acknowledged or celebrated, Black adolescent girls in the rural south. …

Liberation is hard work; it takes an abundance of love indeed. It’s harder to enslave one’s self. Some successfully succeed. They bind their souls with the defeated flag of the grey confederacy and walk lockstep with gouty feet of false prophets and their fake prophesies They latch their minds to Q-a-nothing ’til their spirits stench like festered flesh and deadbolt their children to their ways of bitterness and brokenness

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Dirt becomes fertile

It whispers, quivers, soothes, lifts, teaches, preaches, consoles, opines, but my voice is never silenced.

Buds birth new petals

There once was a player named Paul