All Her Little Secrets

by Wanda M. Morris

Never get your honey where you make your money.

Even though I was bathed in all the external trappings of executive leadership, inside I felt like a freshman on the first day of high school.

Now that I’d made it, I wasn’t sure how to behave.

‘When elephants fight, the only thing that suffers is the grass.’ When the folks with all the power bicker, innocent folks get hurt in the process.

“I stayed in my marriage because I didn’t want my kids to become a casualty of divorce. Why did you stay in my marriage all those years?”

If people didn’t see race, they wouldn’t have to go around saying they don’t see race.