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Author<\/h2>\nRoselyn Berry<\/p>\n
Roselyn Berry aka Lady Rose<\/p>\n
Born in Panama City, Panama; raised in Boston, MA; and now residing in Oakland, CA; Roselyn Berry is a lifelong social justice activist, writer, spoken word artist, model, dancer, actress, lover, fighter, and a passionate, lively, loud, burst of life! She is inspired by LOVE: for God, for her community, and for her family.<\/p>\n
Roselyn received her first journal as a birthday gift from her older sister when she was 9 years old and she’s been a poet ever since. She’s been performing her work as a Spoken Word Artist since the age of 16, in hopes of one day sharing her words with the world.<\/p>\n
Roselyn has been published in various writer\u2019s anthologies and newspapers, including Survival News in Boston, MA. Roselyn is currently in the process of publishing her first book: Revolutionary Words.<\/p>\n
At the age of 17, Roselyn co-wrote, produced, directed and acted in her first full-length theater production: \u2018Tabula Rasa and All that Yin Yang\u2019. The play did a week long run at The Boston Center for the Arts and sold out every night. Four years later, at the age of 21, Roselyn co-wrote, produced, directed and acted in her second full-length theater production: \u2018Spill Life: Confessions of a Butterfly\u2019. This play did two nights at The Boston Center for the Arts and is currently being sold nationally on DVD.<\/p>\n
Roselyn has performed her writing as a spoken word artist at various events throughout the country, including The USSF in ATL and Detroit, CJNY National Gathering in ATL, and Beats for Peace w\/ Mos Def. She has been featured as a spoken word artist at various events throughout Boston, including Boston Renaissance, Crital Breakdown, Our Bodies, Ourselves 40th Anniversary Celebration, Quality and Soul, and Lifted. She co-coordinated a Street Theater troupe for 11 years as part of a young women\u2019s collective that she co-founded in 2001. Street Theater has also traveled internationally with their performance art to places like Cuba, The Netherlands and Venezuela. She is also one of the featured artists for Hot Boxx Studio in Boston, MA.<\/p>\n
Roselyn is in a lifelong fight for justice and liberation for Black, Brown and poor people. She believes in the right for all people to live and love and to be the healthy and vibrant people that God created us to be. Roselyn works toward social justice not only through performance art; but also through her daily work.<\/p>\n
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Roselyn spent 11 years as a proud co-founding member of Reflect and Strengthen, a grassroots collective of young, working class women from the urban neighborhoods of Boston who take a holistic approach to organizing and creating personal and social transformation. Reflect and Strengthens\u2019 programming focuses were political education, healing from trauma, creative expression, community building and campaign work to end racial disparities in the juvenile justice system.<\/p>\n
Roselyn now spends her professional time working nationally to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system and her personal time with loved ones, writing and performing.
\nHuman progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”<\/p>\n
-Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n
Revolutionary Words is the debut poetry book, written by Roselyn Berry aka Lady Rose. It is a perspective of both the resilience and oppression of marginalized communities in the United States, as well as the fight for liberation of all Black, Brown, and poor people internationally, adapted into spoken word poetry.<\/p>\n
Apology to Writing<\/p>\n
(Dedicated to the late and great Dr. Maya Angelou)
\nI\u2019ve forgotten how you feel
\nYour touch
\nThe way it envelopes me when no one else has the strength
\nOr the courage to hold me
\nLong enough to let the tears soak into your clothing
\nHolding me even through the anger
\nThe denial
\nThe unwillingness to believe that this right here
\nMight be all that life has to offer
\nAnd why bother faking it or wasting it on paper
\nI could just scream the words out
\nLoud enough for only you to hear and you would listen Attentively
\nEvery word holding meaning
\nNever belittling even the most minor thought
\nPhrase
\nParagraph
\nSentence
\nBecause you know more than anyone how much I meant it
\nNever too dramatic
\nMerely an exaggeration to say the least
\nAnd while others label me a fanatic
\nYou allowed me to hold onto you so tight
\nThat when I let go
\nMy hands would be the color of your skin
\nSet deep within my pores
\nYou became a part of me
\nNever telling me not to over think things
\nOr over analyze situations
\nYou allowed me to process with patience
\nYou taught me to pull apart every layer of meaning
\nAnd allowed me to be myself
\nIn every emotion I was feeling
\nAt whatever cost you came
\nI didn\u2019t have to say your name for you to notice me
\nDidn\u2019t have to beg you for affirmation
\nI knew that we shared the same thoughts
\nIdeas and feelings
\nAnd if at any time I questioned it,
\nI could peel back your cover
\nAnd rediscover that your insides were my insides
\nRunning deep and spilling over
\nShared secrets like a lover
\nYou found the depths of me
\nThe absolute darkest places that I tried hard to erase
\nBut only managed to push deeper into my being
\nIf we don\u2019t set them free,
\nWe become our secrets
\nWe become those parts of ourselves
\nThat we\u2019re afraid for the world to know
\nWhen we push them down into fertile soil, they grow
\nBegin to show above the surface
\nForgetting our purpose
\nWe become those sad places
\nThose hurt places
\nThose silent places that long to be acknowledged
\nAnd loved
\nJust like all the other parts of us
\nInstead of keeping me stuck in those places
\nYou gave me a space to share my story
\nMy yearning to be understood got transferred through lines And rhymes
\nInto the right to be heard
\nI could never have found myself without finding you
\nMy passion
\nMy zeal
\nReminding me that feeling can feel good
\nMy solace
\nMy treasure
\nThank you for how you deliver me
\nAnd make me feel better about feeling
\nForgetting you has been like treason
\nNo more writers block
\nNo more wasted ticks on tock
\nNo more hiding
\nNo more fighting
\nI\u2019m sorry
\nAnd THIS
\nIs my apology to writing<\/p>\n
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