Black Women Uninterpreted

By Amanda Lafaye Wilson

This book is my written testament. It pays homage to the black women and men who came before me. It is an offering of self, to honor the women of color who cultivated my existence, and built the world around me with the strength and will of their undying spirits. This is the heartbeat of a thousand slaves laboring for my freedom. This is an acknowledgment to my old neighborhood, Schooler Humphrey Villas projects, where struggle plagued our community, where survival was a tool we were equipped with at birth, for the baby bottles, pacifiers to soothe our awareness of the the battlefield we are born into. Fighting for our seat at the table freely given to our counterparts. This is dedicated to the black men and boys from my hood that made it out to see another sunrise, and salutations to the black men and boys that never made it out. This is my tribute to their lives, their legacies, their roots, silenced voices echoing, their cryptic being exalted in a poem, their face humbled in a memory. You, my brothers, are amongst the constellations where your ancestors have taken you to flight. This book is a tribute to my lineage, my feminine divinity, highlighting my ancestry, harbinger to my generational mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers, empowering the struggle, participating in peaceful fight to equality, and me giving a voice to the ones that gave me my voice. I thank the ones that humbly turn the pages of my vulnerability bled to page, and know that we are all one. Shilom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BYRJNKRW
• ISBN13: 9798375299099
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 151 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"