May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015
“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 […]
April 24, 2015
“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 […]
April 15, 2015
“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.”
April 11, 2015
“I’m saying no to drugs today.”
April 1, 2015
“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.”
March 30, 2015
“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.”
March 27, 2015
“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 […]
March 24, 2015
“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 […]
March 17, 2015
“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.”
March 16, 2015
“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 […]