Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Single-mom in the Hood
    Single-mom in the Hood
    Single-mom in the Hood
    Ebook48 pages37 minutes

    Single-mom in the Hood

    By Sandra Brown

    3.5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This powerful epic details what's it like to be black in America. Through pain, love, and forgiveness learn something of what black Americans go through every day. Spiritually written to penetrate the heart and mind, this ebook is for those seeking wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the past, present, and future.
    My soul speaks the words that the flesh has been silenced to say. -Miss Sandra Brown

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandra Brown
    Release dateMay 13, 2012
    ISBN9781476300214
    Single-mom in the Hood
    Author

    Sandra Brown

    Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-three New York Times bestsellers. She has published over eighty novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. Four books have been adapted for film. She lives in Texas.

    Read more from Sandra Brown

    Related to Single-mom in the Hood

    Related ebooks

    Self-Improvement For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      For September, 3 Twisty, Turny, Thrill-Packed Romances

      Sep 3, 2017

      As the weather turns cooler and we start to emerge from summer's torpor, it's time for some faster-paced romances with plenty of exciting twists and turns on the way to the happily-ever-after.

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Final Truth

      Jan 21, 2020

      The Final Truth
      5 min read

    • Article

      Morbidity & the Miniature

      May 11, 2018

      Morbidity & the Miniature
      14 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2021

      (Residue, cellophane, liquid amber, pearl resin on cardboard) Platinum blonde, with whiteboxes of Russianchocolates. Silver liquid glitter,lemon candle, crimsonleather 1970 Mercedessedan interior. Gum drops, fox fur, creamblouse with gold specksand t

      2 min read

    • Article

      Steven Returns the Universe

      Mar 21, 2022

      Steven Returns the Universe
      14 min read

    • Article

      The Marigold Sonnets

      Jan 24, 2024

      The Marigold Sonnets
      2 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2023

      There was a family of deer that looked something like us.They traveled far with a fierce sense of collective unity.Held their fearless faces absent of cosmic worry, for the most part.And yet something crept in, making the easiest partof being togethe

      9 min read

    • Article

      Collins Ferry Landing

      Jul 1, 2020

      for my father Only rivers bottom out like this.Only rivers bottom out with this kind of conviction.Not humans, or, at least, not humans asindisputably human as you were,trapped in consciousness’s surplus, exilic,animalized absurdity, writhing in its

      5 min read

    • Article

      Killing Everyone In Hitman

      Dec 28, 2021

      Killing Everyone In Hitman
      7 min read

    • Article

      Fire

      Dec 13, 2023

      Fire
      6 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Phillip B. Williams

      Dec 15, 2017

      The masters are yet dead. Wanting to be human,I tried to rewrite The Waste Land. The canon’s reachcasts ruinous light. The masters’ pens breachthis page where, above, my own hand spectates. Babylonrisen, exorcism in reverse, whose nature upended now?

      6 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      May 1, 2022

      If I call myself unlovable, I am, practically; if I say itenough times: unlovable. Then, like practical magic, I’m hollow as old garlic; I’m distance-skinned.I’m a long, mean package, a terror-dyke, a nag, a squinting, slut-spun hag—it’s easy, really

      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2022

      followed—in front, as horses—into daisy& silver dancing, knowing the jaw who unkeysin the danced earth to drink me down to haints,& will go again. was willed. distrusted happiness, addicted to it.a god needs of a god. here, i don’t want to reachfor g

      3 min read

    • Article

      From Cantares Mexicanos

      Dec 1, 2023

      Last night I dreamt that I was employed as a suicide prevention specialist in ancient Mesoamerica. We had no phones then so no hotline to call or anything like that. I held these gatherings going place to place for people to tell me their stories and

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Letter to My Sons

      Sep 25, 2019

      A Letter to My Sons
      7 min read

    • Article

      Books

      May 1, 2023

      Books
      6 min read

    • Article

      GURUS, GOOP & GODDESS CIRCLES

      Dec 30, 2019

      GURUS, GOOP & GODDESS CIRCLES
      6 min read

    • Article

      What’s It Like to Be Me Right Now?

      Nov 6, 2018

      What’s It Like to Be Me Right Now?
      4 min read

    • Article

      Joanna Klink

      Mar 3, 2020

      Far into fever, attached by cords to the soft-clicking machines, he sleepsin a bed in a room not his own.People enter and pass like ghost-blownfogs. He is a slow walkwith limbs that recently gave way.He is part of the blue snowfall.He is very small,

      1 min read

    • Article

      This Feels Like Never-Ending

      May 9, 2018

      This Feels Like Never-Ending
      9 min read

    • Article

      Lessons From the Desert: Rediscovering the Endlessness of Time

      Jul 9, 2020

      Dolores Dorantes and I became friends nine years ago, in LA. In those days she was staying in a trailer in a mutual friend’s backyard. She had just fled Ciudad Juárez, her home for 25 years, after receiving death threats, and she had seen enough frie

      22 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Single-mom in the Hood

    3.5/5

    3 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Single-mom in the Hood - Sandra Brown

      Introduction

      Single-mom In the Hood is a poem that reveals pain, love, and forgiveness. Spiritually written to penetrate the heart and mind. A poem that has yet to be understood.

      {Roaming Outside Traditional Thinking}

      Facing the past to shed the pain

      I exist,

      Black as I am,

      Still...

      I am somebody.

      Designed by God,

      But….

      Defined by the world as a slang talking nigger with nappy roots.

      Ridiculed...

      From head to toe.

      Trapped...

      Between ghetto and poor.

      Treated less than human in a world overflowing with colors.

      I AM Trayvon Martin!!!

      Created with purpose,

      But...

      The world cares not to know,

      Unless...

      My name brings forth wealth and fame,

      Damn!

      What a shame.

      Lifestyle criticized,

      Darkness despised.

      Graduated,

      But...

      Thought not of as wise.

      That I do seems not enough.

      Equal Rights

      Still...

      Denied in order not to rise

      World...

      Raping my soul before my eyes.

      Years of shame,

      In a world that feels not my pain.

      I AM Trayvon Martin!!!

      Life...

      Is a struggle,

      I bear the scars,

      Freedom...

      So close,

      But yet...

      So far.

      Face the past and present ways of life.

      Under surveillance...

      In foreign owned places,

      Surrounded...

      By suspicious faces.

      I AM Trayvon Martin!!!

      Racial slurs surround me in disguise.

      NIGGER!

      Viewed as a loser in a naked way,

      As if an alien from outer space.

      Imagine that!

      My soul,

      Disrespected.

      Dead presidents...

      Never rejected.

      Love of money is of no surprise.

      Without black faces...

      Foreign owned businesses

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1