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Book by Crystal Cartier
Curse of the Vendetta" Horror Trilogy
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Temporary Lovers
By Crystal Cartier Someone to hold me
tight
Someone to love me
right
Someone to
understand
& lend a
helping hand
A Love that I can
feel
Someone to be for
"real"
Someone that's just
for Me
Then I'd no longer
need . . .
Temporary Lovers
(Chorus)
Temporary Lover
Just like all the
others
His love is only
temporary
He doesn't want to
share
My burdens or my
cares
He's only looking
after
His own selfish
needs
(Verse
2)
I live from day to
day
Working my life
away
No time to be
carefree
I'm taking care of
Me
I come home too
"burnt out"
To smile or laugh
or shout
I'm tossing
in my bed
Still trying to get
ahead
But then, the
weekend comes
To someone's arms I
run
It doesn't matter
who
Old friends or
someone new
Courting an early
grave
Despite the threat
of AIDS
Sometimes I'm such
a fool . . .
I'm tired of
running to . . .
Temporary Lovers
(Bridge)
This one might last
thirty days
With my changing
moods . . . & his evil ways
Next week, i might
just start all over
again
Falling in love
with a brand new man
(Verse 3)
A loving husband
who Loves me & children, too
Someone who's kind
& bright
My special
"Mr. Right"
Someone to pay the
bills
& buy me pretty
frills
Someone who's just
for Me
Then, I'd no longer
need . . .
Temporary Lovers
(Chorus)
Temporary Lover
Just like all the
others
His love is only
temporary
He doesn't want to
share
My burdens or my
cares
He's only looking
after
His own selfish needs Available on CD Love Story: Act One / www.cdbaby.com/ccartier
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Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing
Ourselves and the World
By
Wangari Maathai
The Challenge of Africa
By
Wangari Maathai
The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the
Experience
By
Wangari Maathai
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Unbowed: A Memoir
By
Wangari Maathai
The mother
of three, the first woman in East and Central
Africa to earn a doctorate, and the first
African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,
Wangari Maathai of Kenya understands how the
good earth sustains life both as a biologist and
as a Kikuyu woman who, like generations before
her, grew nourishing food in the rich soil of
Kenya's central highlands. In her engrossing and
eye-opening memoir, a work of tremendous dignity
and rigor, Maathai describes the paradise she
knew as a child in the 1940s, when Kenya was a
"lush, green, fertile" land of plenty, and the
deforested nightmare it became.
Discriminated against as a female university
professor, Maathai has fought hard for women's
rights. And it was women she turned to when she
undertook her mission to restore Kenya's
decimated forests, launching the Green Belt
Movement and providing women with work planting
trees.
Maathai's ingenious, courageous, and tenacious activism led to arrests,
beatings, and death threats, and yet she and her tree-planting followers
remained unbowed. Currently Kenya's deputy minister for the environment
and natural resources, Nobel laureate, visionary, and hero, Maathai has
restored humankind's innate if nearly lost knowledge of the intrinsic
connection between thriving, wisely managed ecosystems and health,
justice, and peace.—Booklist |
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
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Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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