By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)
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Dear Hannah,
My name is Derrick.
My name means "leader of his people".
I am Keisha's husband, and Hannah's father.
I am a “standup storyteller.”
I fuse rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change.
Everything must change - and stay changED.
Tradition begins and ends with change.
Change begins with me and the renewing of my mind.
I teach students - not subjects.
This a "loaded" statement (lots of layers).
Let me unpack it.
When the student is ready, the teacher will teach.
I have taught many lessons before the students showed up.
See - you're not ready until you're ready to get ready.
Then if you stay ready, y'all, you won't have to get ready.
*Subjects* are not just the courses we study in school.
"Subjects" also refers to the way most of us are *treated* in school.
We are greater than "less than".
But we are often treated like "less than".
We often treat each other as "less than".
As a teacher, I am often treated as "less than" (by students and adults).
And still I rise.
Let's take a trip, folks.
Let's journey to the temple of my familiar.
A world where I am free to be all of me in liberty.
That kind of freedom ain't free.
But victory is for me ... I qualify.
And I believe.
My name means "leader of his people".
I am Keisha's husband, and Hannah's father.
I am a “standup storyteller.”
I fuse rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change.
Everything must change - and stay changED.
Tradition begins and ends with change.
Change begins with me and the renewing of my mind.
I teach students - not subjects.
This a "loaded" statement (lots of layers).
Let me unpack it.
When the student is ready, the teacher will teach.
I have taught many lessons before the students showed up.
See - you're not ready until you're ready to get ready.
Then if you stay ready, y'all, you won't have to get ready.
*Subjects* are not just the courses we study in school.
"Subjects" also refers to the way most of us are *treated* in school.
We are greater than "less than".
But we are often treated like "less than".
We often treat each other as "less than".
As a teacher, I am often treated as "less than" (by students and adults).
And still I rise.
Let's take a trip, folks.
Let's journey to the temple of my familiar.
A world where I am free to be all of me in liberty.
That kind of freedom ain't free.
But victory is for me ... I qualify.
And I believe.
I put this show together to share that belief.
Love,
Daddy
Daddy
U Can't C Me (A One-Man Show)
Run Of Show
- A Tree That Harvests Good Fruit (Delivered at Blondell McCoy Brown's Homegoing) (Dropbox)
- Purpose Is More Important Than Ambition (Derrick Brown Performs THE TRILOGY (UCSM, SYG, GRASPP) Live)
- LEarning (Move)
- GRASPP (Battle Plan)
- Teach Students, Not Subjects (Johney)
- LEarning (Watch Me (Work))
- LEarning (Ain't Goin' Nowhere)
- LEarning (Say What)
- LEarning (Stand Your Ground (Family Reunion 2018 Remix))
- LEarning (What They Say)
- LEarning (I Believe (Keep Your Peace))
- LEarning (Thank You)
- LEarning (All For One (Family Anthem)) | Remix (Live at 2023 Family Reunion) (Dropbox)
- LEarning (Reflections (and Corrections))
- LEarning (Better Me)
- LEarning (Joy)
- LEarning (Cast (Caste) (AKA The Show Must Go On))
- LEarning (Reconciliation (Not Done Yet))
- LEarning (Hang In There (See It Through, See Through It))
About Derrick Brown (Standup Storyteller)
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I am Keisha's husband, and Hannah's father.
I am a “standup storyteller.”
I fuse rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change that I write, direct, and produce to help people who help people.
Everything must change - and stay changED.
Tradition begins and ends with change.
Change begins with me and the renewing of my mind ... then continues through efforts to effect small-group discipleship (equipping others to equip others) with audiences that respect and embrace mentoring, mediation, and problem solving as tools of change.
I am the product of my mentoring relationships, peacemaking (and peacekeeping), and problem-solving ability.
My education began when I finished school.
After school, I enrolled in a lifelong curriculum that includes classes in ministry, entrepreneurship, stewardship, literacy, numeracy, language, self-identity, self-expression, and analysis / synthesis.
My projects execute a ministry that has evolved from wisdom earned through lessons learned.
I want to share this wisdom to build teams of "triple threat" fellows - mentors, mediators, and problem solvers.
We will collaborate in simple, powerful ways that allow us to help people who help people.
I now know that power is work done efficiently (with wise and skillful use of resources, interests, communication, and expertise).
I am a “standup storyteller.”
I fuse rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change that I write, direct, and produce to help people who help people.
Everything must change - and stay changED.
Tradition begins and ends with change.
Change begins with me and the renewing of my mind ... then continues through efforts to effect small-group discipleship (equipping others to equip others) with audiences that respect and embrace mentoring, mediation, and problem solving as tools of change.
I am the product of my mentoring relationships, peacemaking (and peacekeeping), and problem-solving ability.
My education began when I finished school.
After school, I enrolled in a lifelong curriculum that includes classes in ministry, entrepreneurship, stewardship, literacy, numeracy, language, self-identity, self-expression, and analysis / synthesis.
My projects execute a ministry that has evolved from wisdom earned through lessons learned.
I want to share this wisdom to build teams of "triple threat" fellows - mentors, mediators, and problem solvers.
We will collaborate in simple, powerful ways that allow us to help people who help people.
I now know that power is work done efficiently (with wise and skillful use of resources, interests, communication, and expertise).
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