“The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.”

“In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" anything. We were fully brothers and sisters. Family appeared in the pile of rubber slippers and s...”

“Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumpt...”

“Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just something he did. To do something didn't define you, I thought.I saw Dad through a dusty lens that di...”

“Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.”

“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in...”

“Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.”