Vera Stark Is A Fabulous Force Of

I Think The Black Community Is No Different From Any Other Community. We Need To Take Responsibility For How We Live Together. We Need To Be Personally Responsible For Keeping Our Streets Clean, Our Schools Safe, And Our Houses Peaceful.

When You're Young, There's A Whole Lot Of Stuff You Say You'll Never Do. Once You Get A Little Older, The List Tends To Get Shorter.

We Danced Too Wild, And We Sang Too Long, And We Hugged Too Hard, And We Kissed Too Sweet, And Howled Just As Loud As We Wanted To Howl, Because By Now We Were All Old Enough To Know That What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day Looks A Lot Like Love If You Catch It In The Moonlight.

You Know The Buddhists Believe That Sometimes When Everything Is In Turmoil, It's Because Something Wonderful Is Ready To Be Born And That Thing Is Distracting You So It Can Have Some Privacy During The Birthing Process.

It Is A Dangerous Time To Be A Black Woman In America. It’s A Time When We Are Not Safe In The Streets Or At Home Or At School Or At Work And Nobody Seems To Be Able To Do Anything About It. Nobody. Not Us. Not Our Mommas. Not The Police. Not The People We Elected To Look Out For Our Interests. Nobody. We’re Just Out Here. (p.53)