Book Excerpt I: Taylea’s Velvet Girl Salon

" Looting was the news because that was a perceptual expectation. You cannot tell me that the reporters who filmed the ‘looters’ didn’t pass by homes that had rising waters and distressed occupants. Those anguished people weren’t on the news - because they simply weren’t news. Unfortunately, the so-called looters weren’t on television for the sake of information, but for America’s entertainment."

As minds drifted into somber remembrance of those troubled days, even the music’s volume appeared to lower on its own. It was as if the powerfully poignant Curtis Mayfield understood the moment in his rendition of the introspective, We People Who Are Darker Than Blue.

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Book Excerpt II: And The Living Is...

“Why don’t you have a lot of wrinkles?” a curious nine-year old Jurney once ventured.

With a serious but loving look in her almond eyes, Grandmom told Jurney how everyone had soul wells. Instead of troubles and worries finding a place on the face, black folks’ worries found their way into the secret places of our souls. She was careful to let him know that soul wells weren‘t the best places to keep their troubles. “

”But you see, baby, our story has been one of a very long while of keeping our thoughts and feelings inside, hidden – so that’s where they went.

“Understand what I’m trying to say, Jurney. Even our wrinkle worries were afraid to be seen. Yes indeed, learned to even hide our wrinkles.

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