Patrice Murphy

“She had been this way her entire life. A boy trapped in a little girl’s body. The one who wanted to play with He Men and Transformers when other girls her age were combing Barbie’s hair and playing dress up. She didn’t want to cheer on the sidelines at the game.”
― King Milli, WHEN KEISHA BECAME KEITH

“They claimed they were done messing around with these hood niggas for a little coin, neither purposely not mentioning their nigga’s name. They both feared saying who he was because they knew Meech’s street reputation, and knew if word got out, he would try killing them.”
― Tray Real, Community D!@K

“but no one would come out of their apartment doors to help them.  Michael looked back to see that the long black hand reached and grabbed his mother’s hair and drug them all the way back up the stairs into their apartment where he and his mother received the beating of their lives. What seemed like an endless night of destruction to the apartment and beatings to Rachel and Michael, not one person in the apartment building that heard the screams and cries for help would come to help and save them.”
― Shameek Speight, A Child of a Crackhead

“A church that didn’t hold back and you could say whatever you wanted. Again, he needed a church for niggas.”
― Tariz Nasir, Pulpit Pimps