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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter
- Lies, Lessons, & Love Affairs
- Narrated by: Pearl Cleage
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Publisher's Summary
In this inspiring memoir, the award-winning playwright and best-selling author of What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day reminisces on the art of juggling marriage, motherhood, and politics while working to become a successful writer.
In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage is a best-selling author with an Oprah Book Club pick and multiple awards to her credit. But there was a time when such stellar success seemed like a dream. In this revelatory and deeply personal work, Cleage takes listeners back to the 1970s and '80s, retracing her struggles to hone her craft amid personal and professional tumult.
Though born and raised in Detroit, it was in Atlanta that Cleage encountered the forces that would most shape her experience. Married to Michael Lomax, now head of the United Negro College Fund, she worked with Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first African American mayor. Things I Should Have Told My Daughter charts not only the political fights but also the pull she began to feel to focus on her own passions, including writing - a pull that led her away from Lomax as she grappled with ideas of feminism and self-fulfillment. This fascinating memoir follows her journey from a columnist for a local weekly to a playwright and Hollywood scriptwriter, an artist at the crossroads of culture and politics whose circle came to include luminaries like Richard Pryor, Avery Brooks, Phylicia Rashad, Shirley Franklin, and Jesse Jackson. By the time Oprah Winfrey picked What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day as a favorite, Cleage had long since arrived as a writer of renown.
In the tradition of greats like Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, and Nora Ephron, Cleage's self-portrait raises women's confessional writing to the level of great literature.
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- RLita U
- 05-17-14
Intimate and Intriguing
What made the experience of listening to Things I Should Have Told My Daughter the most enjoyable?
Pearl Cleage is authentic and candid. Her story inspires the underachiever.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Pearl is my favorite character.
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- jkthinking
- 05-23-16
perhaps it is a better read wasn't engaging enough
this book may be better to read than to listen to. It's not very engaging.
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- Aggienatl
- 06-23-16
Wonderful!
It was really entertaining in easily one of my most favorite audibles thus far. It's really a great read for anyone familiar with the feminist struggle. :-)
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- Magaela Bethune
- 04-26-19
raw, real, bold, poetic. love.
so incredibly delicious to read. and pearl's voice and rendition of her writing is timeless. the text is a masterclass on the in's, out's, and goings on of Black women's experiences with love. The reads on art, activism, feminism, motherhood, family, and sexuality were juicy bits that kept me engaged and pensive throughout. i didn't know how much I truly needed to read this second-coming-of-age memoir.
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- susan
- 08-16-16
wisdom personified.
thanks Pearl. sharing with my daughters. keep the wisdom flowing. God bless the daughters of the work.
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- T. Cooper
- 01-26-16
I saw myself
Pearl is older than myself but I truly felt that I only had some of these thoughts. Thanks for sharing a piece of you as it solidified I am going to be ok in being myself.
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- Mary davis
- 01-18-23
AngelMT
This book makes me want to start journaling again. I want my child to have an understanding of me that I didn't have of my mother in different stages of her life.
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- New to this
- 01-11-23
Life's poetry
I loved this book. It made me think about... well just me and how I see myself, how other's see me. Does it matter?
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- Melinda
- 01-10-23
Glad I am not the only one
I most thoroughly enjoyed this read as she has as colorful life as I. She has inspired me to continue my own journaling account, in all its colors, unapologetically.
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- Robin H. Alllen
- 12-29-22
Raw and Real
This autobiographical journey beginning in 1970 and ending in 1990 was a raw and real portrait of Ms. Cleage’s life. Riveting listen as performed by the author, herself.
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- Unabridged
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Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity - that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned investigative reporter, shows up in town to work on a story connected to Catherine.
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Sister Love
- By Florence Graydon on 03-26-21
By: Pearl Cleage
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Short Stories
- The Autobiography of Columbus Short
- By: Columbus Short
- Narrated by: Columbus Short
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The life of actor, choreographer, and musician Columbus Short has been punctuated with trauma that extends well beyond the plot lines of his previous role on the hit series Scandal. Short has lived many lives packed into one - from a family filled with turmoil to tumultuous love affairs and enough scandals of his own. But somewhere in the middle, Short’s realization that there has to be a better way comes into full view.
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raw
- By Anita B. on 12-15-20
By: Columbus Short
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Training School for Negro Girls
- By: Camille Acker
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Janina Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school" - with lessons on gentrification and respectability - and fight to create their own sense of space and self.
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Love letter to Black Washington!!!!
- By Jada Thomas on 03-23-19
By: Camille Acker
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
- A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
- By: Joan Morgan, Dr. Treva B. Lindsey - afterword
- Narrated by: Brittney Cooper - foreword, Joy Bryant, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Joan Morgan offers a provocative and powerful look into the life of the modern Black woman: a complex world in which feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men, where women who treasure their independence frequently prefer men who pick up the tab, and where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds Black women who long for marriage that traditional nuclear families are a reality for less than 40 percent of the population.
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Amazing
- By M. McGregor on 09-20-20
By: Joan Morgan, and others
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Divided Soul
- The Life of Marvin Gaye
- By: David Ritz
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer with a divided soul.
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Wow made for the big screen
- By Adé Ngeno on 08-12-16
By: David Ritz
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Force of Beauty
- A Newark Family Memoir
- By: Mikki Taylor, Deborah Riley Draper
- Narrated by: Mikki Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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In Force of Beauty, Mikki Taylor, editor-at-large of Essence magazine and longtime activist, introduces us to her gifted grandmother, Bessie, her glamorous mother, Modina, and how Modina’s friendship with the legendary Sarah Vaughan shaped Mikki’s childhood. Taylor’s mini-memoir is a tribute to Newark in the '50s and '60s, of cool jazz clubs and close-knit neighborhoods, a handsome house on Avon Avenue, and one family’s tale of perseverance and ingenuity in a city they all loved.
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Cadence of narrator's voice is odd
- By Sharon S. on 02-25-21
By: Mikki Taylor, and others
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A Kind of Freedom
- A Novel
- By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of black society, and when she falls for no-name Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter Jackie is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life.
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What a beautifully written, engrossing book!
- By Bonnie B. on 09-30-17
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It Takes a Woman
- By: DeVon Franklin
- Narrated by: DeVon Franklin, Aunt Nuna, Aunt Ida, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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There’s an African proverb that says “It takes a village to raise a child”. Hollywood producer and best-selling author DeVon Franklin offers a personal twist: It Takes a Woman. In this riveting and soul-stirring Audible Original, Franklin introduces us to the women who raised him—a “village of love” that selflessly came together to shape him into the man he is today.
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Beautiful and inspirational
- By Monilyn on 04-25-22
By: DeVon Franklin
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
- A Novel
- By: Ntozake Shange
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Ntozake Shange’s most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three “colored girls,” three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college and living with other artists in Los Angeles, trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories, and her dreams.
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This is a beautiful story, told by people that speak a beautiful dialect
- By Elaina Dariah on 08-12-20
By: Ntozake Shange