The Reason I Create
“I heard the quote: And in that moment, I was reminded —
Over 400 years and 12 generations — it took 4,000 ancestors
for me to arrive at this very moment.”
This moment,
held in a black-and-white photograph,
where love is stitched into satin and lace,
where a smile and a vow become legacy.
My parents,
gazing at each other with quiet certainty,
become the blueprint—
Black Love embodied,
not in grand displays,
but in enduring presence,
shared laughter,
and the building of a life.
This photo is more than memory.
It’s foundation.
It’s future.
It’s what I return to
when words escape me,
when pages feel empty.
It reminds me that
Black Love—resilient, sacred, soft—
created this Black creative.
It fuels the poems I write,
the stories I tell,
the dreams I dare to speak aloud.
They didn’t just pass down features—
they passed down fight.
They passed down faith.
They passed down joy and rhythm,
style and spirit,
echoes and essence.
Their union—framed on the mantle—
is my origin story.
Proof that love leaves a mark
that even time can’t fade.
So I write.
To honor what was,
to imagine what can be.
To be a witness,
a storyteller,
a keeper of flame.
Because of them,
I am here—
rooted, radiant,
ready.

Creative Field: Literary arts—as a Poet, Storyteller, and Writer.

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