Tricia

“Becoming a mother forced me to have hope.”
― Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

“We are the memories we don't remember, which live in us, which we feel, which make us sing and dance and pray the way we do, feelings from memories that flare and bloom unexpectedly in our lives like blood through a blanket from a wound made by a bullet fired by a man shooting us in the back for our hair, for our heads, for a bounty, or just to get rid of us.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“In order to become the mother I wanted to be, I had to develop true compassion for the parents I’d had.”
― Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

“Women of any race shouldn’t have to be superstars for our status as mothers to be respected, no matter what each woman’s path to motherhood is.”
― Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America