She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, sex worker, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa.
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330 posted on 09/08/2016 4:40:35 PM PDT by trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)