Traci Brooks

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Traci Y. Brooks
yalonna@swbell.net

Traci Brooks is a poet, public speaker and writer. Since graduating from San Francisco State University in 1991, she has continued to seek knowledge and understanding of self in order to learn, grow and teach. She is dedicated to the empowerment and upliftment of Black people and seeks to express that spirit in her poetry. Stepping Into Womanhood is Ms. Brooks' first published work.

Currently she is at work on her second title.

"In the spirit of our tradition of spoken word, I have compiled the works that appear in Stepping Into Womanhood. It is a great blessing from the Creator to manifest my thoughts in the form of poetry and allow others to experience the essence of my being. I thank any and all of you that take the time to intake my work. I truly believe that, in some way, each person, will be able to relate to my experience. For I am because you are and you are because, I am."

Title: Stepping into Womanhood: A Black Woman's Poetic Journey

Author: Traci Brooks, with Inonge Khabele-Stevens (Illustrator), Joseph Cochran (Photographer)
Publisher: Black Buttafly Publishing
Date Published: April 1999
Format: Trade Paper

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Stepping Into Womanhood is a poetic journey along the path of today's Black woman. Its prose speaks to the varying realities of her experience. As African American women continue to tread the road to self-awareness and spiritual understanding, Stepping Into Womanhood will serve as yet another reflection of her growth and discovery of self-identified Black womanhood. Stepping Into Womanhood represents a poetic testament of the steps toward transformation that Black women take while attempting to reach the destination of a self-defined existence.

To purchase this book on-line please visit:
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To order by mail please visit:
http://www.blackbuttafly.com/order.htm

SPIRITUAL THUNDERSTORM

I desire to flood you
with the splendor of
a spiritual thunderstorm...

...showering you with
iridescent drops of
ancient wisdom.

...bathing your spirit
   with the divinity of
   Amen Ra
   and the truth and justice
   of Maat.

...striking your soul
with the riveting
rains of righteousness.

...summoning you to
wade in the waters
of enlightenment.

And ultimately...

...welcoming you to
the customary quiet
after the storm.

� 1999 Traci Brooks

Transforming
Black Thought
Through Literature

Black Buttafly Publishing
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San Antonio, TX 78220
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Black Buttafly Publishing represents the ever-transforming literary voice of Black thought. We are dedicated to publishing literary works for the upliftment and englightenment of people of African descent.

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