Carolyn June-Jackson
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I Got It from My Mama
“I do believe in love at first sight because I’ve loved my mother since the day, I opened my eyes.” Florence Etta June was born in 1916. She was the second eldest child born to a sharecropper farmer and a housewife in South Carolina. There were eight other siblings, and granddaddy made sure they all finished high school. She once said that she loved finding a secret place to read and memorize poetry with so many children in the home. Another time, she told us, her family was so poor that they didn’t know there was a depression for the first two years because they always had smoked meat, fresh eggs, and vegetables from the garden.
By Carolyn June-Jackson4 years ago in Families
I Got It From My Mama
“I do believe in love at first sight because I’ve loved my mother since the day I opened my eyes.” Florence Etta June was born in 1916. She was the second eldest child born to a sharecropper farmer and a housewife in South Carolina. There were eight other siblings, and granddaddy made sure they all finished high school. She once said that she loved finding a secret place to read and memorize poetry with so many children in the home. Another time, she told us, her family was so poor that they didn’t know there was a depression for the first two years because they always had smoked meat, fresh eggs, and vegetables from the garden.
By Carolyn June-Jackson5 years ago in Families
Black Is...
I am black. Black as blue-black cobalt, West Virginia black coal, ebony brilliant, black widowed, charred like overdone ribs. A black diamond or sapphire, eyeliner, and nail polish. Black as hair dye trying to cover white roots. A black panther sunbathing on a limb looking for a weak and unsuspecting lunch. Black as the chains that hung around the neck and body of my ancestors. But beautiful as a pair of black patent leather shoes that haven't been broken in or a dew-wet black rose. Yes, I'm black and beautiful! And you're a liar if you say I'm not!
By Carolyn June-Jackson5 years ago in Poets
