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When things fall apart, she quick to grab the pieces and make something new outta them.
“Give him a name that tells him who he is and who he can be. The world’s gon’ try to do
“You gotta love people enough to let them go, especially when you’re the reason they’re gone.”
Pops told me the other day that grief something we all gotta carry. I never understood that till now. Feel like I got a boulder on my back. It weigh down my whole body, and I be wanting to cry out to make the pain go away.
babies good at helping you forget death.
“Tough situations don’t last. Tough people do.”
Killing easy. It’s living after the fact that’s hard, if
“Son, one of the biggest lies ever told is that Black men don’t feel emotions. Guess it’s easier to not see us as human when you think we’re heartless. Fact of the matter is, we feel things. Hurt, pain, sadness, all of it. We got a right to show them feelings as much as anybody else.”
Mr. Wyatt says grief hit you in waves. Sometimes it pull me out to sea and take me under. No wonder it’s hard to breathe as I cry.
All of that ‘ride or die’ stuff, it’s nice until you feel like you’re dying from not living.
