Music I Like – Lupe Fiasco feat Skylar Grey – “Words I Never Said”

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Blue Lines, Key Yemaya Walker, Lupe Fiasco, Skylar Grey, Words I Never Said

“…it’s so loud…inside my head with words that I should’ve said, as I drown in my regrets, I can’t take back the words I never said…”


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Blue Lines Blog #37: The Eureka Moment

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Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, More Than You Know, Rosalyn Story, UNC Chapel Hill

In previous posts have gone into great detail about why I wrote Blue Lines, the catalyst and model for my protagonist Key Yemaya Walker, and recently I touched upon the shameful fact that outside of my mind’s eye, I’m not sure that the readers even would know what she looks like in the early pages of my manuscript. Therefore, for some of the history of her development, you can look at those previous posts (BLB 2.1, BLB 2.2, BLB 5 The California Version, BLB 6 The KYW Version, BLB 10 Partial Character Study, . However, I was quite pleased at a recent revelation early this morning (1/31/11) before I got into the office.

However, before I get into my revelation, there was a time that I was concerned with the character development for Keypsiia, as a man writing a manuscript from the aspect of a female. Yes pride, and ego (used the incorrect way that most people use it), spurred my process on, but with those items taken into account, I still had the goal of writing a quality piece of work, and that work would be experienced through the eyes of an 18 year old co-ed from California.

Shell Toe Thursday – Red Shells with Red Adidas Suit

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Blue Lines, GSU, Key Yemaya Walker, Shell toe, Shell Toe Thursday

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Let the world change you…
…and you can change the world

Blue Lines Blog: This Day In American History – Born Actor Robert Earl Jones

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Blue Lines, Key Yemaya Walker, Rain Without Thunder, Robert Earl Jones, The Cotton Club, The Sting, Zora Neale Hurston

Jones’ (father of James Earl Jones) Born 2/3/1910 career in films started with a small role as a detective in the 1939 film Lying Lips. Jones acted mostly in crime movies and dramas after that, with such highlights as Cold River and One Potato, Two Potato. Jones also appeared in several other noted films over the span of his career: Witness, Trading Places, and The Cotton Club. Jones appeared in the Oscar-winning 1973 film The Sting, as Luther Coleman, an aging grifter whose con is requited with murder leading to “the sting”. Although he never achieved the fame enjoyed by his son, James, Jones found a comfortable niche in Hollywood with steady work from the 1960s through the early 1990s.
Toward the end of his life, Jones was noted for his stage portrayal of Creon in a 1988 musical version of the Oedipus legend, The Gospel at Colonus. He also made appearances in the long-running TV shows Lou Grant and Kojak. His last film was in the 1992 drama Rain Without Thunder. One of his last stage roles was in a 1991 production of Mule Bone by Hughes and another figure from the Harlem renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston.

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.