an intimate interview with robbie taylor
Robbie Taylor, Detroit Playwright
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!!OPEN AUDITIONS FOR ‘DENICIO BARBIER’!!
BLAIZE ALI
Well, Uncle John helped pay the rent. My granny was poor and struggling. She cleaned white folk houses, but it wasn’t enough to support us. Uncle John worked at the plant and made good money. She really couldn’t afford to put him out. Plus, he was her son, her blood, her baby-boy. On the other hand, we were her grandchildren…children of the daughter she lost to the streets. My mother had been molested by her father, too. He eventually left my granny and ran off with my mother down south. When my mother came back to Saginaw she was crazy…. She got schizophrenia, she’s a drug addict, a prostitute, and she is bipolar. I think my granny blames herself for that, but my grandfather was very abusive to her. She had no control over what was going on between him and my mother. He threatened her and he beat her. It’s as though she surrendered her daughter to him because she couldn’t fight anymore. And now she regrets it. I think that’s why she took in me and my brother to try and right the wrongs of the past…to try to do with us what she wasn’t able to do with for my mother, Denicio.
Open Auditions for new play, Denicio Barbier: May 30th, 5-8pm @ International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit, 111 E Kirby, Detroit MI, 48202 Send headshot and contact to: jwillia3@wcccd.edu
COMING SOON: PNR Review of Cara Hoffman’s ‘So Much Pretty’ @ The Hollins Critic Literary Journal
The Dilemma of the Future Educator: Moving Beyond the Crack Cocaine Era
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. -Les Miserables, pt. 4, bk. 7, ch. 1 (1862)
We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of the self. If you do not have knowledge of yourself and your position in the society and in the world, then you will have little chance to know anything else. -Huey P. Newton
The Problem With Secondary Sources: Melton McLaurin and Celia A Slave: A True Story
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The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, and to be in solidarity with those who suffer. -Cornel West
One can lie outright about the past. Or one can omit facts which might lead to unacceptable conclusions. -Harold Zinn
Push Nevahda Review
