Heidi

“The land had returned to its humble beginnings, back to before someone decided to overcrowd it with bricks and gates and too many people.”
― Toya Wolfe, Last Summer on State Street

“Leah had not realized until she sat down at the table with her book club friends that she'd been waiting all year for this moment. To reunite with women who understood and didn't judge her, and women whom she could call friends.”
― Rochelle Alers, The Beach House

“Black kids ain’t got the luxury of not knowing what they want to do,” she said, and I felt stupid. She kept talking, because Mama Pearl was never in the business of making you feel good when she thought you needed a lesson.”
― Toya Wolfe, Last Summer on State Street

“Way before I was anything or anyone, I was an addict. That was my identity, what people thought of me if they thought of me at all.”
― Michael K. Williams, Scenes from My Life: A Memoir