As a society, we have to make a concerted effort to make room for children with special needs who may not react the way that is expected in the classroom, when dealing with law enforcement, or just going about daily life.

If you have lost your way, return home. Study the blueprint for your life. Remember your hopes and dreams. Rewrite the narrative that binds you.

Mothers of black boys survive by pushing fear down so it doesn’t overflow, overwhelm our senses paralyze us and derail our ability to love, nurture and protect our black boys

I was never without a heavenly Father

You have never let me down

There was no need to find myself;

you always assured me that I was

your child. I stood firmly in your shadow