Presenting...Sister No Blues (1988 Firebrand Press edition) (Q6179)
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1988 edition published by Firebrand Press in Ithaca, New York
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| English | Presenting...Sister No Blues (1988 Firebrand Press edition) |
1988 edition published by Firebrand Press in Ithaca, New York |
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[line] | presenting... | Sister | No Blues | [line] | by hattie gossett | [publisher's device] | Firebrand | Books | Ithaca, New York
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Printed on acid-free paper in the United States by McNaughton and Gunn
title page verso
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Copyright (c) 1988 by Hattie Gossett
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1988
"Selections from this book have appeared previously in Conditions, Essence, Heresies, Jazz Spotlite News, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Routledge & Keegan Paul), Southern Africa, Union-Wage, and the WREE Newsletter"
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[1] i didn't make a list of the names of the people whose support for this book demands acknowledgement cuz i was scared i might slip up and forget somebody and get myself in a big mess of trouble. however i will say that this first book of mine which includes materials written between 1975&1988 comes to you as a live&direct result of the energies of many people.
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[2] in fact you wouldn't even be holding this book in your hands right now dear reader had it not been for the longtime friends support group sisters students&colleagues the therapist wimmin writers new friends various underground renegades the literary agent the tipster & the publisher who at one time or another read&commented on the individual pieces as they were written
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[3] who read&commented on the manuscript as it passed through several incarnations. i mean the people who affirmed assured stroked soothed prayed for put up with needled annoyed laughed at infuriated fell out with ignored forgot about cajoled pushed understood encouraged appreciated reflected &reaffirmed me as i went through my changes with this book
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[4] to all of them i am everlastingly grateful and can think of no better way of expressing my gratitude than by repeating these words from sly stone: | i wanna | thank you | for letting me |be myself | again.
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song lyrics attributed to Abbey Lincoln Aminata Mosaka
page 21
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