Tanekeya Word's Page

brilliant one!!!! i can't tell you how much i love waking up to my tanekeya word pieces and going to sleep to them...so much inspiration!

My two favorite things about your page...besides the uplifting, colorful images? 1) That you call yourself an "encourager" and 2) That you shouted out Octavia Butler & Thelma Golden! Go sis!

the encourager! love it.

Hooray! Love your art and all your posts, and I can tell you're someone who enjoys color as much as I do :)

Yay! You and Marissa connected (wipes eyes)...that is a beautiful thang. So glad you are both here. Did I mention that already? I just see some powerful creative connections happening. We're flying now, but with that human magic (encouragement) we're all going to SOAR. So amazing!! Inspired by some of the visuals I'm seeing on your page...and Ebony Bones is off the chizzzzzzain! I love hah! Okay, shhhhh-ing up now. I gets a little excited over positivity sometimes....it's my crack. Color and rainbows and magic everywhere. Beautiful day to you, sister!

OMG, sis, you just opened up a can o’ worms. Get ready, grrrl. Ask Ms. Workman (aka Black Lily) to talk about her favorite writers???? Iz you craAAzy? You don’t know what you started. Bless you! Now, have a seat and try not to nod off, as me loves loves loves to talk 'bout books so much I want to marry them! Okay, so first, the LOVE of my life in writers is Anais Nin. Have you evah read her diaries or Henry and June? Butter, baby. Literary butta, I tell ya. She is a freakin’ word goddess. I read her diaries (1931-1394) every single night. Not kidding. The same damn book, ovah and ovah again, like Groundhog’s Day! Okay, I'ma have to answer your question on the comment installment plan, so I don't freak you out and bore you silly. So here, in no particular order, are a few of my fave books/writers....Audre Lorde, Kate Rushin ("The Black Back-Ups"), Jamaica Kincaid, Dorothy Parker, Toni ("the bluest eye" and "beloved", a'course), Chinua Achebe ("Things Fall Apart"), Ntozake Shange ("for colored girls..." and "sassafras, cypress and indigo"), Helen Fielding, Kate Chopin "The Yellow Wallpaper", Richard Wright "Native Son"....oooh, are you still AWAKE? Look alive. Ummm, BUST Magazine, The food section of The Village Voice, my little sisters' text messages, The Urban Dictionary (hey, I have a definition on there...hehe), the Word Lover's Dictionary, Adrienne Kennedy "Funnyhouse of a Negro",...oooh this question is so unfair. How many picks do I get? Okay, enough for now. Tell me about the loves of your life...who rocks your visual/artsy world? I know sh*t about visual art really, but my faves are Betye Saar and William Johnson. Now, you go....

Oooh, ooooh...we HAVE to meet in person one day, sis. Ntozake, too? I'm so calling you "Lady in Purple" (or what color is that in yr pic, artiste?). I have to reread those you mentioned & I'm sooo googling those artists & I love Alice Walker's "Temple of My Familiar" and "Everyday Use" & I sooo want a 4-realz library in my house too (I scrap pictures of home libraries...I drool over Henry Higgins library in "My Fair Lady" ) & BUST was the 2nd magazine to ever publish me & I love ampersands & i need those ampersand earrings or i might diiiiie & one of my favorite words is "ampersand" ...ooh, and "vicissitudes", but I digress. Mwah, you're a gem, Lady in Purple slash Encourager slash goddess-sister. Chatting with you is euphoric! Glad you were born. Exes and Ohhhs ....

And, I'm so making me an ampersand t-shirt. Gonna go to Michaels this weekend and get some fabric paint!! Whoo hooo.

“If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!” ~ Shel Silverstein

I wuZ just looking at some of your faves (visual artists). Oh saaah-NaPP! Why didn't I know about Kehinde?? Where the hell have I been? He's a beast! Work is disturbing though, hard to look at for me. Explain later...have to go look at some others... ooh, I knew of Fafi...aren't you proud? Ha, actually, only because Marissa had blogged about it on her blog Black Butterfly....and I read about her in BUST or maybe it was Venus...no..I think NYLON magazine recently. So, I'm late to the loop on that one, too. Gotta go do my homework..Hope all is lovely with you, Lovely.