Valerie Washington - Author of Soul Passion  

...WOW...such Passion!... Sensuality... Imagination... Creativity...

...the depth of Valerie’s emotion comes at the reader like the bursts of an automatic weapon...impossible to ignore...cannot miss....pervasive...

...leaves one intellectually wondering "what happened"....am I still alive?...she said "what?"...

...but how could she otherwise convey the depth and sensuality of that kind of emotion?...

...It's like one big "Heart Beat"...every facet vibrant and pulsating...at the same time...in all the directions necessary to keep one alive...never quite understood or reducible to lay terms...or common understanding...certainly not in its entirety...

..."Passion" is an experience... it cannot be looked at or read or understood in a linear fashion...but can only be absorbed "all at once"...like ancient cannon fire spinning through the air ...bursting through as it finally finding it's mark...taking its time....then leisurely exploding in the frantic fraction of a second remaining.

...like some illicit drug slowly pulsating as it eases through your intellectual veins...only to gather and settle....then burst inside your brain... all at once...with a flood of joy/agony/pain/relief providing the ecstasy that you sought.. accompanied by the anguish you reluctantly you must also bare.

..."Passion" cannot perceived a little at a time...only all at once...only after it has been soaked and absorbed into your intellectual being can you even begin to experience the full emotional impact that is "SOUL PASSION"

 John O Adams- Beverly Hills Judge- Beverly Hills, CA.

Valerie M. Washington- Author of “Soul Passion” and composer of various other projects. Dance Specialist, Visual Artist, Poet, Freelance Writer, Community Neighborhood President, and Motivational Speaker.

As part of my community involvement and as a writer, I have developed a literary program called “Forever within my Soul,” as well a book club for young men dubbed the Literature Society.  

As a single mother raising two boys on my own faced with timeless tragedies, life has not been easy.  My goal as a writer is to inspire and encourage others searching for an answer to life’s question, “What is my purpose?” As an artist I speak and write about the  pain I’ve endured, the struggles I’ve encountered and the sacrifices that I’ve made in life that have made me the person I am today. There were periods in my life when I wanted to give up on my dreams, when I felt like my life was worthless and meaningless; every aspiration seemed to fail. I lost hope in myself. Love weakened me back into the Gates of Darkness, into a state of despair. I began to experience a Spiritual side of myself the moment my strength brought me back down to my knees. I then began to realize that I had to research my life like phrases in an essay. So, I examined my ability of thinking.  I acquired knowledge in order to understand the impossible. Now my strength lies in the eyes of a stranger, now I’m able to breathe again.