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Lori’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Lori’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Lori Johnson
Goodreads Author
Born
Memphis, TN, The United States
Genre
Influences
Toni Cade Bambara
Member Since
September 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/lorijohnson
“Mama Say She Had A Dream” by Lori D. Johnson won NELLE Literary Journal’s 2024 “Three Sisters Award” for creative nonfiction!!!
"Mama Say She Had A Dream" (which appears in NELLE issue #7 and won their 2024 "Three Sisters" award for creative nonfiction) is a blend of oral history and essay. It opens with my grandmother's story about the death of her baby brother in the early 1900s. My MaDear's story is one of several I culled and transcribed from the recorded kitchen conversations we had in 1989.
In 1995, I was ab
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A Natural Woman
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After the Dance
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2008
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11 editions
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Lori’s Recent Updates
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“Dear Samson,
I put your hair in a jar by the pear tree near the well. I been thinkin’ over what I done and I still don’t think God gave you all that strength for you to kill my people. Love — Delilah” Carole C. Gregory |
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Lori wants to read 12 books in the 2024 Reading Challenge
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Lori has completed the 2023 Reading Challenge
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"I have but a single word. "DAMN." The story sounded so fictional at first until I was talking to a friend who asked what it was about. When I proceeded to tell her, the response was "Yeah. That's sounds familiar." And I realized that not only did it "
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Lori
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Finding Me
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Best Memoir & Autobiography
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Final Round
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2022 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
― I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country....If we had lost Oprah Winfrey at 25, we would have lost a relatively unknown, local market TV anchorwoman. If we had lost Malcolm X at 25, we would have lost a hustler named Detroit Red. And if I had left the world at 25, we would have lost a big-band trumpet player and aspiring composer--just a sliver of my eventual life potential.”
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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
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Lawrence
Jun 11, 2012 02:10PM
Thank you for accepting my friendship into your circle of friends.
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Great! I hope you enjoy it. Either way it goes though, please feel free to share your thoughts with me about it when you're done . . .Lori
i'm on a waiting list to get Natural Woman. i can't wait to read it.
