Checkmate with Vanessa Siverls

Boys and Girls

“Y’all talk white…Why y’all talk white?!”

I’m thinking to myself…Are we not BOTH in the same English class, learning the EXACT same words? I thought I was speaking English? Oh...I get it…you want me to speak BLAACCCKKKK?! So why didn’t you just say so in the first place?! Yo Yo Yo Yo baby pops, yeah u come n’ gib me a kiss! Betta make it fas or else I’m gonna get pissed! Ahhhh...the essence of communication, once you get your edumacation! Check.

How are you 25?

“You are the prettiest colored girl I have ever seen in my life.” My, how you’ve grown! All shapely and what not... You working out? Good. It will be one of the things you can own. It is your destresser, so own it. Or stress will own you. Take your lunch breaks; they are your destressers. Unplug every hour for ten minutes; that is also your destresser. Eight hours a day—that’s 80 free precious minutes that you own. Do whatever you want with it. Or nothing with it. But make sure you TAKE it. Before it takes you. Check.

Hey now there 30, you okay?

“There ain’t but ten of us up in here; it’s like picking raisins out of a bowl of oatmeal…I got one question for you: Am I my sister’s keeper?...Answer me… AM I MY SISTER’S KEEPER???” “Yes I am. You’re fired.”