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Street Lit
Urban fiction, also known as Street lit, is a literary genre set, as the name implies, in a city landscape. Urban fiction was is a genre written mostly by African Americans. In his famous essay “The Souls of Black Folk,” W. E. B. Du Bois discussed how a veil separated the African American community from the outside world.
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What you do, boy, is get the money and get as far away from here as you can. Don't even stay for your brother's funeral. It might end up being yours also. So start running and maybe one day you and me both will be thankful for what's happening. I don't know. I know your mother deserves more than a double funeral. When your mother talks to you, I hope you will keep this between us. It won't matters if she knows I'm the one who made Jimmy pay for his ugliness.
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― Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame
― Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame
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I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all the time. And also, I want to make clear that my reason for starting these notes at a point of personal anguish and suffering is that these experiences marked the end of a corrupt pimp life and were the prelude to a still mauled, but constructive new life.
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― The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
― The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
This group is created for new and up and coming urban fiction writers. If you are looking for a …more
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I am L. K. Pinder.
I am a Spoken Word Artist.
I write poetry inspired by urban fiction books.
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This is a group for fans of the Bluford Series (by Townsend Press). Stop in to debate who the be…more
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In this bookclub, we will read from urban authors. Old and new titles.
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