Colorless Soul

Colorless Soul is about a black family growing up in the liberated North. Through its simplicity one is rapidly transported through the years as I share with you my experiences as a black youth. This is a true story to the best of my knowledge from my experiences and partly from history passed on to me by my parents. In essence I started writing this story when I was a child. Eagerly I categorized each piece of history in my head that my parents gave me. As I got older I kept scraps of paper and notebooks to write down my thoughts, unique sayings and bits of conversations I would catch. Everything I heard or that was told to me, no matter how trivial, it became paramount in the story that I knew someday I would write. Perhaps that is the part of my being that embraces heritage like a precious gem. I realized at a young age that fragments of my African history were gone forever and the mystery of what existed at that time in my Caucasian ancestry would probably never come to full circle because of racism. I couldn't reach back because I would go as far as my parents told me. I could not touch the present because I was forbidden, but I could take what I had for the future to give to my children, and so I wrote, remembered and waited until the time was right to write. NOTE: This story has been condensed to protect the privacy of my family.