Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

When I began to read, I began to exist