by Randall Barnes | May 9, 2014 | A List Categories
“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” -Angela Davis Earlier this year in my U.S. History class, we were going over the constitutional...
by Randall Barnes | May 6, 2014 | A List Categories, Business
“It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” -Oprah Winfrey One of the many reasons I wrote my first novel The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson was to show the young people of my millennial generation that there are...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 27, 2014 | Blog
Get the first four chapters of “The Diary Of Aaliyah Anderson” for only $2.00 today! The money goes to promotion and marketing costs for the novel. Support the youth. Remember, the author of this article is only 17! http://payhip.com/b/DhLU “A girl should be two...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 22, 2014 | Blog
“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.” -James Baldwin All my life, I wanted to be a self-made man. I dreamed...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 21, 2014 | Culture, Positivity
“Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.” -Ernest Gaines If anything, I personally believe that having people that doubt your goals is the cornerstone of success. It’s so...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 18, 2014 | Blog
“The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.” -Booker T. Washington, The Case of The Negro You know...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 17, 2014 | A List Categories, Business, Culture, Positivity
“You either got time or money, can’t have ‘em both. A n***** with money, don’t have no time. A n***** with time, don’t have no money. We don’t have a lot of time around here ‘cause time is money.” -Big Meech Ever since it was announced that I’d be...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 15, 2014 | Culture
“One thing that Momma taught me when I was little is that outer beauty is important but it isn’t everything. ‘A woman should have more to offer than how good she looks,’ she’d always tell me, ‘The true value of a young black woman is her mind.’” -Aaliyah Anderson,...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 11, 2014 | A List Categories, Blog, Business, Culture, History, Positivity
Get the first four chapters of “The Diary Of Aaliyah Anderson” for only $2.00 today! The money goes to promotion and marketing costs for the novel. Support the youth. Remember, the author of this article is only 17! http://payhip.com/b/DhLU “I’ve gotten completely...
by Randall Barnes | Apr 9, 2014 | A List Categories, Business, Culture, Positivity
Get the first four chapters of “The Diary Of Aaliyah Anderson” for only $2.00 today! The money goes to promotionand marketing costs for the novel. Support the youth. Remember, the author of this article is only 17! http://payhip.com/b/DhLU “It seems like Facebook is...
