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AMARI

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About Me

Amari is a young man from West Baltimore with a vision and drive to make a mark in literature. "Enigma's Child" is a coming-of-age tale that chronicles the life of Jair Owens, a young naive boy who is forced to grow up overnight and take on the burdens of sealing the rift in his broken home. A story of self discovery, self doubt and and subsequently, triumph over adversity. "Enigma's Child" is a story that twenty to thirtysomethings will read and embrace feelings of nostalgia while young readers will take away a new found feeling of belief that no matter how tumultous a situation may seem, perseverance will always overcome deprivation.
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My Interests

Politics, Music, Art imitating life, Mentoring to Youth, Writing, Public Speaking, Entreprenuership

I'd like to meet:

DIARY OF A YOUNG AUTHOR/VOLUME 1DIARY OF A YOUNG AUTHOR/VOLUME 2DIARY OF A YOUNG AUTHOR/VOLUME 3 HARLEM BOOK FAIR

Music:

A little bit of everything...from Classical to Pop, Jazz to R&B, BeBop to Hip-Hop

Movies:

The Color Purple, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, all throwback hip hop movies (Breakin 1 and 2, Rap City, Beat Street, The Last Dragon, Krush Groove...etc.), Huge fan of horror movies (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween...etc), black and hispanic independent films.

Television:

PROMOTION

Books:

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Black Boy by Richard Wright, Native Son by Richard Wright, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

Heroes:

There are a lot of people who I look up to, admire, and have patterned certain aspects of my life after. To name them would in some way take away from their heroe status because I feel a true heroe acts in a way that inspires and elevates anothers life without really knowing that they doing such an act. One day, I'll share who my heroes are.

My Blog

Missing You...

Death is mysterious, ambiguous, uncalculated, and indiscriminate.  It's one of those things in life that no one can say that they have experienced and lived to tell about it.  Although very ...
Posted by AMARI on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:16:00 PST

Being on The Oprah Show

On October 19th, 2007 "The Oprah Show" aired with the topic being "Infidelity:  Women who sleep with Married Men and the Wives Who Have Been Cheated On."  If anyone has ever been to a taping...
Posted by AMARI on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:57:00 PST

The Question of Marriage??????

Hello Everyone! I am happy to say that yesterday I attended a very good friend's wedding in Pennsylvania.  It was an outdoor wedding, short, sweet, and just filled with the love and the early aut...
Posted by AMARI on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:32:00 PST

THE MESSAGING MISUNDERSTANDING

Today I got a message from (will remain nameless so we'll call them WRN = will remain nameless). This is simply a part of the message that I got...WRN wrote...[...yea I got the right person... my cli...
Posted by AMARI on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:29:00 PST

STREAM OF CoNcScious Vol 2

Stream of Conscious Vol. 2   Labor is intense, screaming, shouting, yelling, unbelievable and unyielding pain encapsulates every pore&will death come today?  Then, as the miracle of birth g...
Posted by AMARI on Thu, 10 May 2007 09:36:00 PST

Chucky, Chucky BOOMS... Where are you?!

Inspired by the throwback cartoon of Scooby Doo, I titled this recent blog, "Chucky, Chuck Boom...Where are you?!"  If you're wondering who Chuck Booms is, well look him up!  Wikipedia offer...
Posted by AMARI on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:37:00 PST

Dancing in September...

***Since so many of us don't like to read, I'll keep this one short*** THE PRELUDE   Once again, television is capitalizing off of the buffoonery and idiocy of minorities relentless in their effo...
Posted by AMARI on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:57:00 PST

HAS CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP SET US BACK? --an old post revisited

I am all for creative expression, innovation, stepping outside the box, going against the grain, etc. I've even, on occasion, caught myself two stepping to "Laffy Taffy," and even grooving to "Because...
Posted by AMARI on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:23:00 PST

Read a chapter from "Enigma's Child", experience Neo-Lit

Chapter Three     SUMMER 1989   Orange. That's what their love was. Not just a description of a color but a tangible object that could be seen, felt, tasted, and slowly savored. Looki...
Posted by AMARI on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:24:00 PST

Review of "Slanted Subjects" by Andre Byers, check him at www.ingeniouspress.com

Byers, Andre.  Slanted Subjects.  Missouri: INGENIOUS Press, 2005.  182 pages.  $12.00.   Andre Byers is currently a doctoral student at Howard University.  He has a Mas...
Posted by AMARI on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:06:00 PST