"Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Steinâ€™s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the authorâ€™s journey to reclaimâ€”and celebrateâ€”that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying."

-- Mira Bartok

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“Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.”
“At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, how many good things he had done. She hadn't told him nearly enough.”
“Welcome to the Customer Revolution, where you are no longer in charge. Your customer is.”
“Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?”
“Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!”
“Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.”
“The best benefit that blogs can provide a campaign is actually to build buzz. It provides earned media for the candidates the bloggers are supporting. It generates attention from traditional party organizations, the labor unions. And the issue groups that might not have even known that race existed and not have considered putting money into it now realize, 'OK, this is getting a lot of buzz, we're going to start putting resources into the race.' It motivates a lot of big-dollar donors to put money into these candidates.”
“I know from firsthand experience that our environment and the things and people who cross our paths make all the difference. If people have no prospects for a decent job or a place to belong, it leaves them vulnerable to whoever comes along. For me, it was a Nazi skinhead.”

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