It seems that I am a controversial woman...smiling, gleefully...
Don't mean to be, but before I could attach woman to myself as a label, at twelve or thirteen...
Folks were saying that about me, seems that knowing one's own mind, speaking it when asked,
And dancing intensely to one's internal music makes one controversial...
I am pretty quiet, until engaged..
I rarely seek folks out...not my nature...
If I walk past a conversation, even if I know the folks, I usually walk on, unless asked to stop,
But will engage intensely on topics that inspire me,
Well, it seems that is even more true in my writing...
Honestly,
When writing, I rarely if ever think about what folks 'will think or say' even at book six,
When they have thought and said plenty...
I remember my first book, there were those who took exception to Black's salty language,
And my choice of using slang and words such as androgony in the same book, seems some feel that one who uses slang shouldn't even know what androgony means! Lawd, how limited we be...
Anyhooo...
So I patiently explained that though, Black was an educated, well-read, millionaire, the brother was about it, straight from the hood, no apologies...and he knew how to handle himself corporately, yet when he was with his peeps...he spoke differently...
Then the woman decides to write short, love stories, running the gamut from older woman/younger man, interracial, woman who loves a woman, to the dreaded bug-a-boo, black hair love....YOW!...She too much...
Of course, when she pins her best-selling book to date, Cinnamon's Universe and allows this woman to do whatever her heart leads her to do, oh my goodness...the sisters loved her, but the brothers, said, 'I know doggone well you aren't saying what she is doing is okay'...well she laughed in a few faces...because those same brothers had applauded Black's prowess...and I told them I am not saying a thing....the woman is writing books...giggling....
Now lo and behold, she chooses to write young adult, emerging women's fiction...
Where she chooses to write about a young woman, Malaaka Green, who loves herself, values herself, loves God, has fun, makes intelligent choices, is straight up good people, role model material...and a handful of people can only see that the child is abstinent because she is a Christian....Ms. Controversy is now a holy-roller....honey hush...
So I am going to straight up tell you who she is...
She is a WRITER...
Who feels that she can write about anything she chooses to...
Because good, bad or indifferent she has been given a voice,
And knows there are many stories to be told and most of them...
Are not in straight lines but all over the place...
And what she knows for sure is that if they are talking it is a good thing,
WONDERFUL...so let the conversation flow...
Blessings,
angelia
http://www.angeliavmenchan.com/
