#29 What Gives Me the Right?

What gives me the right to say the things I say? What gives me the right to make observations that people may or may not want to hear? Who the fuck am I to point fingers and pick scabs? The only things that give me the right are GOD and my damn self. May sound foul to some but it's the truth.

I am a writer and I have opinions. I write those opinions in this blog and wherever people will print what I write. Hell, sometimes I just write to be writing because there are things on my mind and on my heart and I let those things out. I have said it before and I'll say it until the day I die: I don't write for acolades or prestige. I don't write to please anyone. I write because if I don't write I'll go crazy! I don't claim to be a leader or to represent anyone except for myself. If people read it and like it that's fine. If people read it and hate it that's fine too. Individual opinions are just that--individual. Just like individual assholes--everybody has one and most stink--even mine. Kiss me or diss me--I don't give a fuck, and that's real.
I have writing heroes. I admire the likes of Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, Chester Himes, Iceburg Slim, Donald Goines, Octavia Butler, Stephen King, Walter Mosely, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and numerous others. What all of my writing icons have in common is that they write or wrote what they write or wrote and never apologize for it. At the end of the day it is what it is, was what it was and will be whatever it will be.

I've been writing since I was 12 and few people have noticed--but I kept writing because that's what I do. At this moment in time a few people are taking notice. Some like what I write and some don't but what the hell am I going to do--change, switch or get on my knees and suck some dick for praise? Fuck some praise. I never picked up a pen to get praise and I can't let praise change who I am or what I do. I am a writer bitch and I'll die with a pen in my hand! If you don't like it, blame God and my parents because they made me. I will be who and what I am until I'm gone and I don't regret shit. I sleep well and I don't run from my reflection. If I say it I mean it. If I change my mind, I'll let you know. I'm not infalible and will never claim to be. I'll be what I'll be. Nuff said!