A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir

by Jason Timbuktu Diakité

Depending on what happens in your home, it may be the only spot on earth where you are at peace, or it may be the very place that has the power to destroy you.

“If you constantly tell a child it’s good-for-nothing, lazy, thieving, and ugly. If you hit that child and treat it without respect its whole life. What kind of person will it become? What do you think that child will do? We are that child. Four hundred years of abuse, pain, and murder have made us what we are today. Beautiful, terrible, dysfunctional, and strong.”

every human, from the time they’re born until the time they die, is a universe of memories, dreams, plans, sorrows, desires, and convictions.