Pearl Cleage
Birth date: December 07, 1948
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Told in the first person, main character Ava Johnson returns to her hometown of Idlewild, Michigan. Ava up until recently lived in Atlanta, GA. However, after finding out that she is HIV positive, she ends up having to shut down her business after losing customers when her status is found out.Ava is...
Some books are meant to be devoured like a soul food meal; other books are best enjoyed in small sips like a fine glass of wine. Things I Should Have Told My Daughter is obvi the latter. I read this memoir very slowly. It is a personal view into an amazing storyteller's life in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
I agree with some of the complaints about Babylon Sisters being a bit scattered, and sometimes obvious...but what relationship with sisters -- whether by birth or luck -- isn't both of those, from time to time? Pearl Cleage's stories just make me happy. They're romances, at heart, but the men and wo...
This poem was written for Oprah's Legends Event. Poem form is my least favorite venue for words because I'm a stickler for grammar. Rules can be broken all over the place in poems, and they were here for sure. But if you can look past that, the message is inspirational. This poem examines the lives ...