“Quincy Scott Jones has the courage to take on the most difficult and vital subjects with stunning integrity and imagination. Kamilah Aisha Moon, author of Starshine & Clay He translates the voices and journeys of people that inhabit the charged physical and emotional landscapes he’s travelled, bearing witness to the gamut of these experiences.” He has a way of observing what is right in front of him as well as what used to be there, and what might be coming. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. “Quincy Scott Jones’ poems are wise and sinewy. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. Yolanda Wisher, author of Monk Eats an Afro, 3 rd Poet Laureate of Philadelphia They unflinchingly ask and answer: What use is a poem on this American killing floor and its cooling board of rhetoric?” These poems are the knife’s edge of nightmare scoring the fertile threshold of song. These poems are cry-laughing to keep from killing somebody. “These poems are dying to stay tender in the plumage of rage.
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Inspired by Audre Lorde’s “Power” How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children calls upon the past and present in an attempt to find a language higher than the circular rhetoric that falls in and out of mass media, to hold a conversation that is constant even in silence, to escape the cycle of violence and Black death. Through a mix of lyric, found text, and hybridity, How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children highlights some of these voices: adults and children, murderers and victims, bookshelves and wanted posters, carnival barkers and political pundits. Instead it’s a constant choir of dissent and disembodied voices whispering and wailing night and day. It’s labeled “the Conversation,” but this discussion is never an intimate moment, never a one-time event. At a certain point, BIPOC families must have “the Conversation,” a discussion and set of instructions for surviving a world of policing, presumed guilt, and the racial inequities that threaten our very lives. Quincy was later married to Swedish actress Ulla Andersson from 1967 to. He had a brief affair with Carol Reynolds, which resulted in a daughter named Rachel. He was first married to Jeri Caldwell from 1957 to 1966, and they had a daughter named Jolie. Quincy Jones suffered twin brain aneurysms in 1974 and a stroke in 2015. By 1985, however, the Ain’t No Mountain High Enough artist moved on when she said I do to Arne Naess, Jr. Quincy Jones has been married three times, and has seven children with five different women. How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Childrenġ0 % of all profits from the sale of this book will be donated by C&R Press to Black Women’s Blueprint Marriages came and went, seven children were born.
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