“THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings. A lapis lazuli sky was blanketed by gunmetal gray clouds as it wept crocodile tears across the parched Los Angeles landscape. When Ivy was a child and she overheard adults talking about their break-ups, in her young feeble-formed mind, she imagined it in the most literal of essences. She once heard her mother speaking of her break up with an emotionally unavailable man. She said they broke up on 69th Street. Ivy visualized her mother and that man breaking into countless fragments, like a spilled box of jigsaw pieces. And she imagined them shattered in broken shards, being blown down the pavement of 69th Street. For some reason, on the drive home from Marcel’s apartment that next morning, all Ivy could think about was her mother and that faceless man in broken pieces, perhaps some aspects of them still stuck in cracks and crevices of the sidewalk, mistaken as grit. She couldn’t get the image of Marcel having his seizure out of her mind. It left a burning sensation in the center of her chest. An incessant flame torched her lungs, chest, and even the back door of her tongue. Witnessing someone you cared about experiencing a seizure was one of those things that scribed itself indelibly on the canvas of your mind. It was gut-wrenching. Graphic and out-of-body, it was the stuff that post traumatic stress syndrome was made of.” LoveWisdomHumorInspirationPoetrySexEmotionBeautyKnowledgeNew YorkStressMeaningProseRebirthAstrologyLiterary FictionBlack HistoryValentine S DayBlack AuthorsDeityFoodiesScorpiosWilmington Book:Remains To Be Seen Source: Remains To Be Seen
“Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.” MadeHomeCommunityCitiesScalesDelawareSomaliWilmington Author:Joe Biden
“Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [their home] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community, i might add if you ever come to the train station with me you'll notice I have great relationships with them because there's an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real. I'm not being solicitous. I'm being serious.” IfsMadeRealHomeMightCommunityCitiesMinesSeriousAddTrainDrivingScalesAwfulStationsCabGreat RelationshipDelawareSomaliTrain StationsWilmington Author:Joe Biden
“My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world.” WorldPlayInspirationKidsGamesGrowing UpGrowingSkillsBasketballFellowsTreasureAround The WorldNativeDedicationCarolinaLemonsNorth CarolinaHarlemNational TreasureWilmingtonGlobetrottersMeadowlarks Author:Michael Jordan
“I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke. He is the most brilliant guitar player from right here in Wilmington, DE.” SometimesYoungEnjoyPlayerListeningGuitarBrilliantBellsGuitar PlayerDukesTime Goes ByWilmington Author:David Bromberg
“I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.” ThinkingMeanFeelingsSidesBlackInvolvedEastSwimmingPoolSwimming PoolAll BlackEast SideWilmington Author:Joe Biden
“I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.” KnowsWaySidesEastBarackSwimmingPoolSwimming PoolEast SideWilmington Author:Joe Biden
“I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do."” RememberSmartReviewsChicagoGenesAttemptingReally SmartWilmington Author:Judd Apatow
“I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.” PeopleWayWritingCountryLiteratureInfluenceTownsExceptionEasternSmall TownCarolinaNorth CarolinaWilmington Author:Nicholas Sparks
“I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!” MenI CanHouseParentWatchesComedyFourSpecialPlanetsWalkingCopiesBroadwayTrailersRobinsHboWittiestWilmington Author:Sophia Bush
“My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.” YearsAgeSchoolJobsMonthsSummerWeekendPublic SchoolAfter SchoolWilmington Author:Daniel Nathans
“Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.” WayLongHandsEnglandQueensBusSectionsLong WayShakingCarolinaDowntownNorth CarolinaQueen Of EnglandShaking HandsWilmington Author:Althea Gibson
“We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.” PeopleFourWonderfulCircumstancesTownsBehaveSmall TownWilmington Author:Katie Holmes