Momma Said, "No Slouching."Momma said, “You don’t have to look down at your feet. They aren’t going anywhere. They aren’t going to move unless you tell them too.”
CharacterI'm just trying to get through chapter six of a twenty chapter novel and I cannot believe how much effort has been put into the lead female
The color of honeyWhen I rise in the morning, no. Just before I open my eyes, my skin is placid.... You are ins the presence of greatness.
Journals of Jo: Don't you Dare Make Me HappyAfter waiting up for hours and hours until the sun came up over the horizon of the tall buildings in this dark city where we live and where
Journals of Jo: EuphoriaThese cats weren't ever your friends and they never invited you to the table. They always fed you and me, scraps from it when we were h
Journals of Jo: Who Gives A...WHO GIVES A Sometimes you'll feel like you're being used. You'll want to lash out at the world and curse at strangers just because they...
Journals of Jo: I Feel Like That GirlI've spent my entire life trying to be better than where I came from. Where I'm from, the girls there, don't usually make it out of the...
CONSCIOUS THOUGHTBut the real work hadn't started. In the weeks, months and years that followed the work we thought would be done, had still gone undone.
MOMMA SAID,"IF I HAVE TO REPEAT MYSELF..."There were days when you could hear my momma yelling at the top her voice so that any one of her fourteen children would answer her and do w
WHEN I WAS A YOUNGERWhen the time came and I did get solitude and quiet, I was filled with fear and anxiety and I couldn’t wait to be in that crowd of people ca