Negroes Flies And Wet Toilet Paper

Author : Debra Roberts Torres-Reyes
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781450219013
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negroes, Flies and Wet Toilet Paper written by Debra Roberts Torres-Reyes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Children's Day at Mt. Sinai Holiness Church of God In Christ in Newark, New Jersey, in the Fall of 1959 and I feel as though I am being held prisoner on the first pew. I am five years old and wearing one of my favorite dresses ... On my feet I am wearing a pair of shiny black patent leather shoes, so shiny I swear I can see my reflection in them. My short sandy brown hair, parted in three pigtails and secured by three large pink and blue ribbons, is standing on end like corkscrews. We are blessed this day with a guest speaker, Reverend Walter J. Cook ... When his sermon began three hours earlier, he promised he'd talk to us children about going to Heaven and how wonderful life will be once we got there. "You wants to go to Heaven, don't cha?" He asked. I shook my head yes. Considering the alternatives, I definitely wanted to go to Heaven. But ... that was over three hours ago. Now my head ... bobs up and down and back and forth like ping pong balls, as we desperately fight to keep our eyes open.

Author : Debra Roberts Torres-Reyes
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532012284
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evangelical’s Daughter written by Debra Roberts Torres-Reyes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day, Frankie Roberts hears a preacher pronounce that a woman’s place is in the home, not in the pulpit. But this mother of four daughters and wife of a pastor in New Jersey won’t hear of it; she knows she has a special calling. In 1959, Frankie packs up her children, leaves her husband, and moves to Sioux City, Iowa, to start a ministry. In this memoir, one of Frankie’s daughters, the author Debra Roberts Torres-Reyes narrates her mother’s story. Availing herself of both humor and honesty, Torres-Reyes describes being raised by Pentecostal Holiness Ministers and living with a fanatical preacher mother who inflicts both physical and verbal abuse on her offspring. The author reflects on how the church’s views and actions—speaking in tongues, casting out demons, and dancing in the spirit—caused her to grow up with poor self-esteem, to suffer panic attacks, and to live in constant mental and emotional torment about The Rapture, demons, the devil, and hell. The Evangelical’s Daughter describes how Torres-Reyes ultimately breaks out of a self-destructive lifestyle, joins the military, and later attends college and law school, finally becoming an attorney. This is one woman’s true story about finding God and leaving religious dogma behind.

Author : C. Leon Wall
Publisher : [Phoenix, Ariz.] : United States Department of the Interior, Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo-English Dictionary written by C. Leon Wall and published by [Phoenix, Ariz.] : United States Department of the Interior, Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs. This book was released on 1958 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a recent surge of interest in Native American history, culture, and lore, Hippocrene brings you a concise and straightforward dictionary of the Navajo tongue. The dictionary is designed to aid Navajos learning English as well as English speakers interested in acquiring knowledge of Navajo. The largest of all the Native American tribes, the Navajo number about 125,000 and live mostly on reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Over 9,000 entries; A detailed section on Navajo pronunciation; A comprehensive, modern vocabulary; Useful, everyday expressions.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Author : Burns Mantle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burns Mantle Best Plays and the Year Book of the Drama in America written by Burns Mantle and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Kronenberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burns Mantle Yearbook written by Louis Kronenberger and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061749877
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mules and Men written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more. For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed and oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, “big old lies,” songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of Black Americans.

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030747772X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

Author : Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Life in Georgia written by Brown and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Beatty
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312280192
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Boy Shuffle written by Paul Beatty and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A slapstick satire on race relations featuring Gunnar Kaufman, a black writer from Santa Monica who becomes famous by saying all the right things whites want to hear. The novel pokes fun at both blacks and whites. A first novel.