With the way things are today, you HAVE to save for a rainy day. I’m not just talking about it; I’m almost begging you to realize the importance of this. I say this for all of those people who realized it too late and for those of you that still have a chance to start putting away a few dollars each pay check. Let it be the first thing you do with you money. And if saving means that you need to cut down on your cable TV channels or eat out a few less times a month then trust me when I say, it’s well worth it in the end.
Old Friend
© 2003 Sandra Jean-Pierre
On the Sahara plain
we were tribesman
sharing stories of the hunt
beneath crooked-sparse
shade trees
maybe…
we were women
in South America
tending the men,
nursing the children,
feeding our families
from the Earth
while sharing the sisterhood
of moon-cycles
infinitely capable of life - rebirth
maybe…
maybe
we were
evy-ivy over
I said east-west
I met my friend at the candy store
playmates
sharing Bazooka Joe bubble gum
and coca-cola
on mid-summer
Brooklyn sidewalk [...]
This a call to action!
This much I know on a day like today. In some places in our supposed “free country” being a queer woman of color can be a crime.
Last year on August 16th a group of seven young lesbian African-American friends from New Jersey we’re hanging out in the West Village of New [...]
My friends & family know me to be a person who “says it like it is.” This pic is me at a recent anti-war rally. I could have said “USA out of Iraq” or “Impeach” but the truth is this country has a painful history of going around killing brown people whenever it suits us. [...]
Who am I?
I’m a…
sister, mother, comforter, girlfriend, best friend, soror, afro-brazilian, overweight woman, person searching for peace, lover, fighter, daughter, lesbian.
It surprises me when people ask me why don’t I have a boyfriend. I tell them that I’m a lesbian and their response is “WOW! You don’t look like a lesbian.” And just what [...]
