"I'm pregnant, this will be the first. This is a life changing thing, it's opened up my mind to a whole bunch of things. I wasn't as motivated to do things like look for an apartment, jobs, going to school. Now I'm like 'this is what I got to do now.' It's pushing me closer to God, and helping me focus on my goals. I'm serious about everything I do, everyday I wake up and I got to do something. My child is going to be number one in my life, and my baby got to look up to me."

"My dream is to be able to supply help for veterans, and housing for the homeless. I want to be a good Samaritan, you know, help a lot of people. So I love people, and I love God, and I try to help anybody that I can. I don't care what race, color, creed they are, it doesn't matter, they're just a human being."

"I'm actually walking down to Ford field to go to this interview. I been walking for like two hours. It's crazy, but I need the job."

"I'm saying no to drugs today."

"I go to west side academy, I'm going to graduate this year -- in a couple of days actually. It feels amazing, I can't wait to be done. I'm going to college after I graduate, though, to study to be a registered nurse."

"Receiving the love from the ones that come from you, the love that comes from your children, is forever refreshing. It's a beautiful thing, it's something that you never lose, something that will always be yours. No one can put a stamp on it and say it theirs, it's all yours. It's a beautiful thing."

"I was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and then I studied journalism in Paris, then I came back to Detroit. I like Detroit, I spend a lot of time here and right now I'm based in Detroit and work here – I get to write about the city, so that's pretty cool. I also have a personal project right now called 'No Place Like Detroit.' I wanted to start the project after I attended a talk organized by Lauren Hood. The theme was 'I was here' and it was this group of people talking about how they grew up in Detroit, how everything was changing and how it was hard for them because they didn't want people to forget about them with all the new people coming into the city. So that's where I got the idea. Listening to them talk inspired me to want to record people's stories here."

"You can't live if you ain't got no dreams and hopes, you know what I mean? That would be fucked up; you'd be stuck in the same place over and again. I mean I do – hopefully I can go back to school and get this political-sci on the way, then back to try to get my law degree.”

"I have two kids -- I got one guy at the University right now, and the other one, she's going to graduate high school next year. I have no job right now, and I'm supposed to support my family, so I'm afraid I won't be able to provide for my family."

"I'm working on a project called 'My Hair, My Story, My Glory​' which is going to be shown on May 10th, which is Mother's Day, at the Charles H. Wright Museum. The project is a series of artistic narratives on the history of hair. We're trying to start with the beginning of history, or what we know as history. So we're starting in Africa and then will be progressing through time, then going into the American culture."