Chen Reads

“I’m sorry, I really have to go,” Griff says.”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“Black farmers never got their forty acres and a mule, the promised reparation for their years of enslavement and the wealth their stolen labor had created for this country.”
― Kamala Harris, 107 Days

“do. Has he ever stopped to wonder why being a mom actually is the hardest job in the world and not just something thoughtless people say? It’s because there’s never a day off—not just a day, but an hour, not so much as a minute. Is she sick? Is she feeling under the weather? Too bad! There’s no one to cover”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“Got no business all up in my man’s face. Stay in a child’s place.”
― Sadeqa Johnson, The House of Eve