My Desire To Participate In The Business

Theres Not A Lot Out There, And What Is Out There Has To Be Really Interesting To Make Me Want To Leave My Life, Which Is Really Precious To Me.

Prisons Are Like The Concentration Camps Of Our Time. So Many Go In And Never Come Out, And Primarily They're Black And Latino.

That Industry Expects You To Prove Yourself Over And Over Again. Do I Stay Doing This, Or Do I Raise My Daughter And Live Surrounded By People Who Love Me? Wasn't Even Really A Choice.

I Felt Devalued And Disrespected. The Energy Behind It Felt Disingenuous And Motivated By Corporate Profit.

My Mother, Brave Woman, Lost Her Whole Family When She Decided To Marry A Black Man In The 60s. When The Marriage Fell Apart, She Had To Come Back To Her Family.