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

“Not yet, but people get what they don't deserve all of the time. Don't get so hung up on things that don't matter...”
― Jayne Allen, Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

“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

“I met a community of people who also didn't fit in their own homes and neighborhoods, so they came here, and together we joined up and formed our own.”
― Michael K. Williams, Scenes from My Life: A Memoir