How to Be Black.

on January 5th, 2011

Madison Moore at Thought Catalog offers some pro tips:

Struggle with the stereotype that all black people have huge breasts, a huge ass, a huge cock, and/or huge lips. Figure out early on that non-black people only want to sleep with you because they think being black means you have something enormous to offer. [...]

Category: Race, Writing | 1 comment

On The Verge of Productivity.

on March 29th, 2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

Every yuppie knows the mural in all of the Barnes & Noble stores; it’s a wall of Anglo authors (and of some random nigga smoking a pipe that looks like the smallest possible saxophone) sitting, looking pensive, unkempt but well dressed. I, too, could become a great writer [...]

Category: Writing | 16 comments