“Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something ...” — Yance Ford Quote

“Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.”

“People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of black people as being rabidly homophobic.”

“Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.”

“In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.”

“What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?”

“My Blackness, my Latinidad, and my queerness all resonate in me equally and can't be separated from each other.”