My artistic shelf by Cade Briggs https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e Made with a wish on a star en-us 2018-02-26 20:57:42 UTC 2018-03-16 19:53:28 UTC hello@padlet.com cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236551039 “It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness”.]]> 2018-02-28 17:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236551039 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236551407 “Uncle Willie, why do they hate us so much?"

Uncle Willie muttered, "They don't really hate us. They don't know us. How can they hate us? They mostly scared." 

]]> 2018-02-28 17:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236551407 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236552429 “When I was described by our playmates as being shit color, he was lauded for his velvet-black skin. His hair fell down in black curls, and my head was covered with black steel wool. And yet he loved me.”]]> 2018-02-28 17:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236552429 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236552997 “They were more alike than she and I, or even he and I. They both had physical beauty and personality, so I figured it figured. “]]> 2018-02-28 17:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236552997 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236553729 “Ritie , don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind."]]> 2018-02-28 17:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236553729 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236557196 “Now, this ain't gonna hurt you much. You liked it before, didn't you?"(thesis)]]> 2018-02-28 17:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236557196 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236557703 (Thesis)“Then there was the pain. A breaking and entering when even the senses are torn apart. “]]> 2018-02-28 17:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236557703 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236559649 “Mother, something is growing on my vagina." […]
"On both sides. Inside." I couldn't add that they were fleshy skin flaps that had been growing for months down there. She'd have to pull that out of me.”

]]> 2018-02-28 17:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236559649 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236560629 “All I knew was that I had been moved by looking at a woman's breasts.”]]> 2018-02-28 17:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236560629 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236564805 “He held me so softly that I wished he wouldn't ever let me go. I felt at home”(thesis)]]> 2018-02-28 18:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236564805 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236571143 “I wanted to throw a handful of black pepper in their faces, to throw lye on them, to scream that they were dirty, scummy peckerwoods”.]]> 2018-02-28 18:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236571143 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236572009 “When I was described by our playmates as being shit color, he was lauded for his velvet-black skin”. (Relates to thesis)]]> 2018-02-28 18:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236572009 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236572578 “I knew immediately why she had sent me away. She was too beautiful to have children. I had never seen a woman as pretty as she who was called "Mother”.]]> 2018-02-28 18:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236572578 cbriggs7957 https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236573165 “Then the possibility of being compared with him occurred to me, and I didn't want anyone to see him”. (Thesis)]]> 2018-02-28 18:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cbriggs7957/c7ni9qlmvc7e/wish/236573165