Danielle Banks
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Student |
| Location | Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | "I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back, where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows. A girl gets sick of a rose. I want to go in the back yard now, and maybe down the alley, to where the charity children play. I want a good time today. They do some wonderful things. They have some wonderful fun. My mother sneers, but I say it’s fine how they don’t have to go in at quarter to nine. My mother, she tells me that Johnnie Mae will grow up to be a bad woman. That George’ll be taken to jail soon or late (on account of last winter he sold our back gate). But I say it’s fine. Honest, I do. And I’d like to be a bad woman, too, and wear the brave stockings of night-black lace, and strut down the streets with paint on my face." Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Interests | Boxing, writing, reading, informal debate/discussion |
| Favorite music | PARTYNEXTDOOR |
| Favorite books | The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns, Eric Jerome Dickey's Milk in My Coffee |