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B. Kamilah Ricketts

My story

I am a Caribbean American writer and educator. My love of reading, writing and music saved me. It taught me how to overcome adversity. In my writing, I explore feelings of love, self worth and the power of healing myself through creativity. When I’m not writing I can be found dancing around my living room or singing really loudly while driving down the highway.

Stories

I met my future self. I keep saying it and people don’t believe me. They think I’ve entered the realm of positive thinking, energies brought on by crystals and witches. They don’t understand. But I did, I made a deal with my future self. It happened in a dream…

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portrait of the artist as told by her mother

Breana is my daughter. I remember finding out that I was pregnant with her after about five years of trying; we had finally done it. The most exciting part was waiting to find out what gender she would be. I wanted a boy so badly…

My whole life, up until eighth grade, I went to private school. My parents are from the Caribbean and they were deathly afraid of public school. They heard that in the gangs reside in public schools and children have sex in the stairwells…

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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

― Audre Lorde