just like jesus, be a shameless pervert while with the possibility of sexism and paternal. just like jesus, i want to hear the voice of my farther. bask in the stars, this is not an end but a beginning. a sepia tone of martarism. i want my engage capturred. to frame the minds of ignorants. while blindly following leaders. i want to be nestled, half naked against your chest. claiming your spirit when you come. with the promise of salvation. i simply want to life before i die. i have two more poems. this is all new. wrote it for harold bloom. he first called it the death of art and. reading well is one the greatest pleasures. i am dedicating to harold bloom. i am not a poet. i want to be rich. i have had a great sex life. i am not a poet. georgia i do not like being called an act visit. i cannot be considered a vegetarian. i will give my ass up and like it. i would be inspired. i may value peace, but will not use a pen to unleash my anger. i am not a poet. i am not dying. weight loss can still be a choice. i am not a poet. i don't care much for. i don't spend me weekends read

[inaudible] sexism, regionalism, we can go on and on with the isms. i am the oldest granddaughter of james leon, he is a monster fighting and so am i. that comes from southern tales of supernatural. a porch lie is not a mean or vicious lie, it is a story of exaggeration and humor. the one that loretta told you about, cake lawrence. all the people that knew him called him cake, he used to steal the warm cake that his mother put out. he would cut a slice and run off to the crawl space. they call him cake. i use that in my story. those 2 come from my grandmother, she was the germ, the seed of those 2 books and many others. let's go back to that front porch again. this time daddy james is the story teller. we sit at his feet and listen about stories about sara and pat and nollen. that is my brother, my sister, and me. we thought we were just as clever and smart and just as brave as the children in his story. he told stories vaguely familiar, but different some how because he told them his way. you see, i had no idea my grandfather was a functional illiter

i agree about institutionalized sexism, if they treat somebody that isn't going to be demanding looks as qualified -- >> that could be true guys too. i interviewed and hired a lot of people over the years. reality is -- >> what did you find? >> in general i would say i think guys do ask for more up front. >> what do you say to them? >> what do you tell them? >> i -- >> sorry, a woman wants five grand a year less. >> i hire a person best for the job if i can get them for the amount of money i've got. i don't care what they ask for necessarily. who is best for the job what can they make. point being is that, i think it's a matter of not just being good negotiator it's a -- that is a big part being able to say what you want. got to be the right candidate for the job. >> i think we want to be careful of forcing employers in to the box of, you've just got to pay equal amounts for the job, we all know whether it's man, woman, age, anything else, people are not equal how they end up doing their role in the job. some people are better thanker. >> wouldn't you say college grads pretty much, th

slow, i looked and found that there was another wall i had to climb into that consisted of racism, sexisme chauvinism. now you can wind or go do what you are trained to do. i will tell you when i was working at a hospital in new jersey i was minding my own business, walking through labor and delivery and a nurse came out screaming you need to come in. you need to come in. it's not my patient. i didn't know what was going on in the delivery room. what was happening is there was another obstetrician that was in trouble. the baby's head was down but he wasn't coming out and the heart rate was going down so they said get somebody. i need help, did anybody. so the nurse came out, dried me in and i came into the delivery room, and the obstetrician looked at me and said what is she going to do? all that he or she saw was a black woman. he didn't know i was a double board certified maternal specialist. i asked the nurse may i have forceps. she gave it to me and i asked him excuse me, may i sit down? i sat down and applied the forceps and delivered the baby. my job was done. i got up and i left th

found that there was another rock wall that i had to climb, and that rock wall consisted of racism, sexismoaf niche. you can whine, or you are do what you're trained to do. when i was working at a hospital in new jersey, i was minding my own business, walking through labor and delivery. a nurse came out screaming, dr. thornton, you need to come in! now, it's not my patient, i didn't know what was going on. there was another obstetrician, he was in trouble. now, the baby's head was down, but it wasn't coming out, and the baby's heart rate was going down. so the obstetrician said get minute, get anybody, i need help. so the nurse came out, dragged me in, and i came in to the delivery room, and the obstetrician looked at me and said, what is she gonna do? all she saw or he saw was a black woman. he did not know that i was a double board certified internal medicine specialist. i asked the nurse may i have a forceps with an action traction handle. i asked him, excuse me, may i sit down? i applied the forcepses, we delivered the baby with good apgars. my job was done, i got up, i left the delive

he is hearing sexism and flat-out lies. >> the notion that women are z jezebels that entice men intos or that. >> you are pro choice? >> i am pro choice and prolife. i don't see those things as being exclusive. more often than not, i would surprise to try to go through with the preg snancy. i don't believe that anyone has a right to take away the choice. a male telling a female what to do with her body. >> this is an emotional issue. it is a tough thing to talk about in the morning. as i'm reading your column, i'm seeing that your column is not so much about the abortion debate itself but how the battle is being waged. >> absolutely. i don't want to tell someone where their morality should lie with this conversation. i do think it is important that we pay the attention to the language that is being used. there is a senator in iowa who introduced a bill and basically said that a woman being raped may be the hand of god at work. there was another senator who compared a woman being prepared for hi rape and stead was correlated to him having a flat tire or health insurance. >> lz, we hav

sexism and classism are absolutely in place and ready to try to grab you.power. even in my beloved "essence magazine," it was there. people in pain bring that paine webber they are. they act up. put on your spiritual armor. you have to know why you are working where you are working, even if you are at the top tier. you have to have an entrepreneurial pursuit on the side. without the money i put in real estate and those kind of things, i would not have been able to leave "essence" and began working with the national organizations i now work for. if you spend on something that loses its value, you carpet -- you are wasting your money. by things that will protect you and your family at the end of the day. people spend on the symbols of wealth and power. we rarely are a community the -- what is the word? low wealth. never again am i going to say we are poor people. we come from a low-while community. we are working toward becoming a high-wealth community. there is a proverb that says it perfectly. if you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go toge