The Potty Mouth Granny

  • Dem Haints Over There

    I learned about haints as a child from my grandmother. She was from Mississippi and she told me slave folklore about their evil asses. For those who don’t know, the term “haint” hails from Black Southerners and it’s a folklore term for a restless or angry spirit — essentially a ghost or supernatural entity. Dem…

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  • Have you ever broken a bone? Yes. Broken left fibula as a result of getting hit by two cars. Hit by one car, flipped up into the air, came down, and cracked head on the windshield. Bounced off the car into another car and left leg was entangled into the wheel of said car. Two…

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  • The Life of a Writer

    She sits with the page like an old friend who no longer speaks. The words used to pour like honey; sometimes soft as silk, other times thunderous and filled with fire. Now, silence. Complete silence. Voiceless. Ideas knock but never enter. Ideas forgotten. Ideas who flew away like leaves in the wind on a warm,…

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  • A Creative Way of Describing Epilepsy

    The fatigue that comes with epilepsy is not ordinary tiredness. It is deep, consuming, and layered; a kind of exhaustion that wears the body, mind, and soul. Every seizure, even the smallest one — a flicker, a tremor, a blank space in time — burns through the brain’s energy reserves like wildfire. It’s like running…

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  • A Message for My People

    Most Black folks are regular people. We go to work and take care of our families. We have regular friends and family members. We live in regular neighborhoods. We lead regular lives. I know that the social media has destroyed the brain cells of so many people and got them thinking stupid shit but damn.…

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  • The Little Things in Life

    What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? The 5 everyday things that bring me happiness is waking up in the morning to see another day, FaceTiming my grandchildren and seeing them smile when they see my face, the sounds of the children playing in the playground that faces my bedroom, looking at my…

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  • Letting Go of Dumb Stuff

    Describe one positive change you have made in your life. Letting shit go that doesn’t concern me. If it’s beyond my control, fuck it.

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  • Selling “Femininity” to Gullible Black Women

    I’m not watching any YouTube videos on femininity. I’m not cutting my hair and getting a long, flowing weave. I’m just going to do what women have been doing for centuries to make it in this world: surviving by their wits if they have any.

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  • Don’t Let Hate Win

    We are living in times where hate rules. Hate is the reason why the current president is in office. Hate of anyone other than themselves but now we all have to suffer. I’m beyond pissed but I can’t afford to have a seizure due to stress. I’m doing my best to not let hate overwhelm…

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  • Eat Them All

    I’m going to be frank. I’m a part of the soon to be working class in this country and I don’t give a rat’s ass about rich people. I don’t expect anything from them. Why? Because historically, they have shown that they don’t care about people like me, a disabled, overweight black woman. Last month,…

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