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Joel L. Daniels is a father, writer and story-teller, born and raised in the Bronx. He was the recipient of the Bronx Council of the Arts BRIO Award for poetry, and his work has been featured in the Columbia Journal, The Boston Globe, CNN Money, The Towner, Fatherly, Thought Catalog, Phila Print,The Smoking Section, Blavity, Huffington Post, BBC Radio, RCRD LBL, URB, BRM, AllHipHop, The Source, RESPECT, and HipHopDX.
Joel has spoken/performed at the Apollo Theater, Joe's Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, Columbia University, Lehman College, City Tech, The National Black Theater, NYU, Webster Hall, Pianos, and Brooklyn Bowl.
With the climate of our current state of affairs, things look bleak across the board. It's in times like these though, that the greatness of the human imagination stands as a testimony to our fortitude as a people, and a nation. With this spirit of innovation in mind, I'd like to suggest an alternative, better future ...
It was his swing - it was always about his swing. There was...
There wasn't anything particularly "hard" about today. I woke up, I showered, I folded some clothes, I masturbated... the normal things. But there was an overwhelming feeling of "heavy." Everyone's "heavy" sits differently, depending on the carrier of the weight of it all; the feeling that rests solely in the middle of your chest, pulsing and riding your nerves into infinity.
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We must protect Black creativity. | "Well, I may or may not be bitter, but if I were, I would have good reasons for it" chief among them that American blindness, or cowardice, which allows us to pretend that life presents no reasons for being bitter" - James Baldwin They will try to kill it, first.
The New Black will play tennis and win awards and break cardboard stereotypes with her feet. She will throw on ballerina slippers and dance and frolic in her Blackness. She will have blue hair and be a gymnast, or an afro cloud as high as Mars.
I get it. There have been a lot of folks singing and rapping, but I think Bryson Tiller is on to something. This ain't even an old head hating on the youngin's gittin' it type of piece. Nah, Tiller really gets it. Men in popular R&B have been singing to women and not for women for a decade-and-change.
The old New York came in fitted New Era size 7 3/4 caps, damp sweat in them from last night's whisky shots. It rose at the cracking of a XXL white t-shirt, or XXL magazine YN editorial letter. Risky behavior and sex shops still open at 3 a.m.
Why, why in God's green and vast and beautiful earth, would you want to murder pussy? Like, the textbook definition of what murder includes, besides doing extensive time in the penal system (unless ya' money long like Diddy, or like, you're white), is not for games or play-play.
WORDS: JOEL DANIELS I bite my lips out of anxiety. It is the tendency to be lost in thought, my brain traveling into spaces and caverns that have been explored and excavated one too many times over. I am adept at overthinking, in this way I write best with too much on my plate, picking at lip and thoughts.