From Within
C
opyright
©2011
by LaFreddie B
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Creative Direction: LaFreddie B
Photography: Brian Rose
Book Design: LaFreddie B
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN: Paperback 9780982739112 ebook 97809827391
Dedication: To total and complete healing from yesterday.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Poetry
Disclaimer
Truth Hurts
Victory Chant
Last of a Dying Breed
New Love
Childhood Crush
Gold Digger
Yo Fatha
Question
Desire For Quiet
Sorry
No Signs of You
Fear Produces Laziness
Vision of Hope
Playing Games
Get This Straight
Secrets vs Skeletons
Happiness
Acknowledgements
Preface
W
hen
I was fourteen, I received my first job that yielded a paycheck. My
mother was in it by herself to raise my sisters and I. She would
often reach her financial breaking point with us. And
like most parents, she did it without complaint. To help her out, I
would use that paycheck – all of $75 – to put a few things in my
closet or a pair of shoes on my feet. Whatever I was able to do for
myself, it blessed my mother to the core of her being because I never
complained in the process.