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Camouflage fatigues & dashikis. Somewhere in between Ralph Ellison and PE.📚:🔥INSURRECTIONS🔥(PEN/Bingham winner) and THE W🌍RLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU.
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Goal for the summer: Always be writing like I’m ‘bout to get the slaves freed.
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Life hack: met an elderly lady who lives across the street from Six Flags. Says every year she buys a season pass with a meal plan and eats all her meals at the amusement park. In one conversation I figured out what kind of old person I want to be.
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Kinda weird that a restaurant called Popeyes doesn’t serve spinach
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Just this week some alt-right types called me nigger and when I reported the tweets I was told the tweets didn't violate community standards
This is a small change, but a big move for us. 140 was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit. Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence!
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3yo: What’s this we’re listening to?
Me: Bob Dylan
3yo: I don’t like this.
11yo: Yeah, I don’t like the way he plays his harmonica over the music.
Me: He won a Nobel prize for Literature.
11yo: Yeah, makes sense that he didn’t win one for music.
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Nobody’s more creative than a white editor trying to avoid the word racist.
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THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE!!!
Coronavirus Relief: Lionel Richie proposes 'We Are the World' remake for COVID-19 aid
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8yo got lost in the bookstore, had customer service page me, but in the meantime talked the manager into ordering copies of my book.
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So a few months ago Samaadi tells me he wants to apply to the arts middle school’s creative writing program and I’m like cool. I look at the requirements and I’m like 🤔 that’s pretty high level for some kids.
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@_Zeets
Slightly scarier to be pulled over by a black cop. Particularly if they are partnered with a white cop.
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That's a real problem to address and to address thoughtfully but twitter seems to have no interest in making this app a less hostile place.
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@djvlad
@MorganJerkins
@Princeton
Hey Vulture Vlad, I’m a professor at University of Maryland, College Park. Please also call my job to complain about me on Monday because I also think your colonizer-like engagement with hip-hop has earned black folks the right to ask you to stay out of these discussions. Peace.
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Don't take all those open tabs into the new year, beloved.
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Me: Why are you smiling like that?
9yo: Cuz I’m holding my brother’s hand.
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Removed two books from my son’s room and a nightlight as well as the goddamn lightbulb from his lamp so he would go to sleep instead of staying up to read and man, my journey from writer to anti-reading villain has been one hell of a plot twist.
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@MikeDrucker
@JoeMOwens
Imagine being those three sycophants and having to fake laugh at his “jokes” all day
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Now you have thousands of white people saying "woke" with a sneer. Meanwhile black people don't even use it anymore. It's in the dustbin next to bling-bling and on fleek and every other word white people ruined.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please check out my new story “Shape-ups at Delilah’s” in the latest
@NewYorker
!
A female barber becomes the greatest barber the town has ever seen and a bunch of men can’t handle it.
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Talk to your students about what it means to write through troubled times. Don't have them out here thinking literature is apolitical.
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Some good news: The good folks at University of Maryland decided they want to keep me. Starting Jan. 5, I’m a tenure track Assistant Professor of English!!
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Anti-semitism is just another form of white supremacy. Any black person spreading anti-semitism is getting hustled.
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My fellow academics, this semester better be the highest grades ever recorded. This is not the time to be exercising your fail finger.
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@komogetsome
@djvlad
@MorganJerkins
@Princeton
And the first amendment even protects people’s right to tell others to shut the fuck up.
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@rgay
knew what kind of cruelty she'd face for publishing this book & she wrote it anyway & shows up to promote it. That is bravery.
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Since this is blowing up, here’s my wife’s mixtape out in November:
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Pleased to announce the THE WORLD 🌍 DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU WAS won this year’s Towson Prize for Literature. I wrote a Maryland book. Honored my state returned the love.
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You have to almost admire what white people did with the word "woke." Because white people frequently misunderstand black vernacular, both unintentionally and maliciously, they changed the meaning of a fairly lighthearted and jokey term.
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TI is what happens when your parents refuse to sign the permission slip for sex ed classes.
#redtabletalk
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My mother, Monica Scott, passed last night. I’m going to miss my mother’s smile a lot. The way she always had a joke on you. She always made me laugh. Even when she was battling Parkinson’s she was good for a joke even if she couldn’t get the punchline out as quick as she wanted.
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White film critics seem to have no clue what black film critics are saying about The Green Book.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Times on THE WORLD 🌍 DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU.
“Rion Amilcar Scott proves himself an impressive myth-slayer and fable-maker.”
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@FOverdone
@FeministaJones
@_Zeets
Don’t let it be a black and a white one
Cuz they’ll slam ya
Down to the street top
Black po-lice showing out for the white cop
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Rejected from University of Maryland. Now I teach there.
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Goodreads is so dumb. Someone wrote a really racist review of an anthology I’m in. Like really super-overtly racist. And then went through and 1-starred every book I’m in, including an anthology of middle school writing I wrote the intro for.
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I liked it better when I thought publishing a book was going to solve all my problems.
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Holy shit! I don't believe this! I just wrote King Lear!
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Then he goes home and spends hours creating a cover and uploading his book. And then every time I walk into the room it’s, “did you pre-order my book yet?” And I’m thinking ”🙄OMG it’s like lit Twitter is in my house.”
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Reading a poem daily will make you prose more fluid.
I owe everything to that piece of advice.
What advice have you gotten from a writing professor or metor that you've never forgotten?
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I've seen my schedule so I guess it's real...
This academic year I'll be joining the faculty of University of Maryland as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
Happy to get back in the classroom. I got books and stories to discuss. Class everyday by the Kermit the Frog statue!
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Supposed to be planning a class but I'm playing w/ the Google Doodle. The class will just be everyone scratching on the Google turntable.
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LOL...so the editor that acquired American Dirt, Amy Einhorn, is also the same editor who acquired The Help??? LOL...does that make them part of the same universe?
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I‘ma quote Ghostface here: “Tears just burst out my wig.”
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9yo: My birthday gift to you is that I will behave for the entire weekend.
Umi: Aww that’s so nice...
9yo: And then toward the middle of the week my behavior will get bad again...
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Hey, you ever procrastinate from writing a novel you’re not ready to write by trying to write a whole ‘nother novel you’re not ready to write?
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No one ever writes a novella on purpose. About 50 pages in I’m always like, “Damn, I really fucked up this short story.”
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“Dumber than a rich kid at Harvard” really should be a saying.
"Fact checking" is a euphemism for editorializing which is a form of censorship. And that's a fact.
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Thread. Painful thread.
I want to talk about how hurt, demoralized and deflated my Muslim dad is today. Just don't know where to start. He's not himself.
#MuslimBan
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My greatest wish in life is that Toni Morrison has secretly been working on a short story collection and she's just waiting for the right moment to release it. Just putting that out in the universe.
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The day after the White House correspondents dinner is when all the lapdogs expose themselves.
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Part of being a mature adult is admitting that Kevin Hart was never really funny.
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Got what I neeeeeed/but you say Putin’s just a friend/you say he’s just a friend/Covfefe
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You either die a hero or live long enough to hear the music of your youth played on the adult contemporary station.
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The Cereal Saga:
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Then they attack the term for the meaning that they assigned it. A meaning no one actually uses. It's the ultimate straw man. There is no way to defend against this rhetorical move. The sheer number of white people using this new meaning essentially shifted the meaning of "woke"
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Stopped at Samaadi’s school this morning to drop off his computer and I tell the receptionist his name and she says, “Oh! The writer!” 🤣🤣
Anyway, proud of this guy. The Cereal Saga has emerged.
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Lil guy reading me a short story he’s working on. Like father, like son.
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They should just suspend entries for the week. Ain't nobody topping this.
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“My candidacy was no longer viable so I decided to wobbledy wobbledy drop drop it like it’s hot.” —Tom Steyer
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Very suspicious of the review he has on the BN site by someone named “Not Scott” that’s been up since the moment he uploaded the book.
Great Plot!
If you want adventure and a hint of mystery in 19 pages then this is right for you! Short read, but keeps you hooked until the end!
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Me: When I’m old you may have to help me.
9yo: And when you’re old you’ll say “I wish I didn’t spend so much time tweeting. I could have written so many more books.”
Me: Just get in the car.
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When marijuana is finally legalized, what will college students write their argumentative essays about?
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Someone asked me today what's the best type question to ask a writer at a reading. Easiest question ever: "Questions about craft. And the worst type of question to ask a writer of color is one that assumes we have no craft and do everything by accident."
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Me: You can’t take that book to school. It’s a library book. I don’t want you losing it.
(7yo leaves the room and when he returns there is a rectangular bulge under his shirt.)
Me: Really?
7yo: What?
Me: 😐
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So much of black literature starting with the slave narratives are written for and to white people. Toni Morrison made it clear that she was writing for black people. An ongoing love letter. That’s the perspective a lot of us have now and it’s a Morrisonian innovation.
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@jameyhatley
That boy lives in my house for free. Gets clothes, books, food and toys for free! About time he earned his keep.
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Working on a proposal for a panel for the next AWP. “Wakanda shit is that?: Black Writers respond to micro aggressions.” Who want in?
#AWP18
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My father, my brothers and I gave my mother back to the earth yesterday. It was a beautiful send off. This grief doesn’t feel good but it’s the price of being loved and learning to love hard. It’s worth it.
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One big error
@Perez_Writes
makes in this now infamous
@hobartpulp
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Walk with me here:
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I hate y’all for acting like something’s wrong with ending a text message with a period. Who raised y’all? Got me endings sentences with no punctuation to appease y’all and shit. It’s unnatural. And why the fuck you on my lawn?
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@rgay
He has me blocked too. For the life of me I can’t remember the joke I made. It was worth it tho.
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Wife: The system we use at my new job is much better than Blackboard.
Me: Doo doo on a stick is better than Blackboard.
Happy
#firstdayofschool
!
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Since it is now unethical to take details from real life to make fiction, I regret to inform you that every story I have written or will write in the future is unethical. Sorry.
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I can't be the only one who fantasies about traveling back in time and spitting classic rappers rhymes before they even had a chance to write them.
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Yeah y’all we gon’ do it again. New story collection THE WORLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU coming summer 2019 from
@LiverightPub
. Novel also on the way. The Cross River saga continues!
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It’s poor etiquette for white people to wear red hats.
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8yo: I’m psychic.
Me: Ok. Are we going to have a good trip?
8yo: No, I’m going to misbehave a little.
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Wife: Don’t give the baby any more ice cream.
Me whispering to the 2yo: Here.
9yo: He’s giving him more ice cream.
Me: Ok, 6ix9ine.
Wife: That was low.
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New Galleys! Cross River, MD taking over for the 99 and the 2000s!
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It’s a good thing I don’t believe in discouraging him from pursuing highly unlikely things. They told him they couldn’t stock it (of course) but if he went to the BN site he could upload it for free and people could purchase it. They’ll print it and everything.
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You know how much shit and gooch grease you must have in your heart to 1-star a book written by literal children you haven’t read.
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What’s you do this morning? I helped deliver a baby on my bedroom floor.
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Can't wait to see Jared Leto's wild & crazy method acting antics while he plays Hugh Hefner. It's going to be so damn wacky.
#sarcasmfont
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What’s interesting about the wave of right wing strong men being elected to lead countries is that they’re all so dumb. Just some incredibly stupid people.
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Woo. Just seen Sorry to Bother You. Boots Riley been changing my life since I was 13 and he rhymed “presto/read the communist manifesto.” That was a real wild flick. I would say I can’t wait to see what he does next but I been saying that since 93 and he’s never disappointed me.
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Then he shows me all this stuff he’s been writing in class. I was impressed and encouraged him to write more.
So some months later. He has one of his stories all stapled and he’s trying to sell them. We go to Barnes & Noble(s) and he tries to get them to stock his “book.” 🤣🤣
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