Elevate your mind.

I was born in the Brownville section of Brooklyn, New York in the early fifties. The oldest of three children born to David and Mildred Hicks. My memories of life in those early times were so amazing until I started school; that when I found out that I wasn’t just a child but a negro boy. To call someone in the neighborhood “black” would cause a fight; remember negro people on the majority did not embraced their “blackness” until 1969 when James Brown record “Say it loud. I’m black and I’m proud.” The other influence on my life expressed in my poetry attribute to ShaSha who isn’t a poet but one of the first nine born of the “Five Percent Nation”, who in the fall of 1967 started my education of myself in P.S.20 Park. The Poets that inspired my writing are Langston Hughes, Niki Giovanni, The last Poets, Gil Scott Heron and Maya Angelou. My Poetry that you may now read upon has been a request of my deceased brother’s wishes for me to publish my poems, so the first hopefully not my last book of poems is dedicated to my deceased brother David Hicks.

Author Gregory Hicks started writing at the age of fifteen. He has written more than one hundred and fifty poems and articles. He has also penned two short stories “One Tin Dime” and “From Punk to Mr. Tough”. Window Thoughts is his first published works of poetry. He has read his poetry at The Bottom Line, New York City, and The Langston Hughes Library. Corona Queens, N.Y. and at Barnes and Nobles Bookstores “Open Mic” in Brooklyn New York. Felton Jenkins was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was educated at the High School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has worked as a freelance Designer and Illustrator for the past 30 years. He has done Graphic Designs and Illustrations projects for various governmental, civic and non -profit organizations thought-out New York State.