Quote of the Week:
"Books more than anything else taught me to be a drunkard long before I knew how to drink. The state of drunkeness--that extended sense of well-being and power that floods the soul and makes it hard to walk straight, or to think straight at all--became as familiar one to me as I imbibed a heady brew of literary glories--and was equally intoxicated by magazines, newspapers, movies, whereever stories were found, all stewing around in my mind in a wash of dreams. And out of it all, I almost became a writer. Almost, but not quite."

Ossie Davis

Book of the Week

With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together
by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

Book of the Week:
Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?)
by: Michael Eric Dyson

Quote of the Week:
"Therefore, you have this pile up of these sweet beautiful things born by nature, raised by no one. Give 'em presents. You're raising pimps. That's what a pimp is. Pimp act nasty to you so you have to go out and get 'em something. Then you bring it back and maybe he or she will hub. And that's why pimp is so famous for them" Bill Cosby on black family values (see the entire speech)

Guess who's back...............

It's been a long time...

After a very productive spring and summer semester, I'm back! I am beginning my PhD in a couple of weeks and I am very excited. In order to keep myself in line and make sure I share the great information I'm coming across, I'm dedicating myself to reading at least 2 books a week (with written reviews). I will present one of the texts online every Tuesday along with a quote. Every now and then I will try to introduce a theme of some sort so stay tuned.

til tomorrow...

D