“That callousness that comes from feeling like you have to survive on y...” — Jodie Turner-Smith Quote

“That callousness that comes from feeling like you have to survive on your own - I really empathized with that.”

“My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you live and exist as a Black person in America, at least to white society, to a certain extent, no one is asking where you're from and where you were born.”

“Even with my family, I feel sort of 'other.' I'm the only one of my siblings who wasn't born in Jamaica. For a long time, I didn't feel very connected to Jamaican culture, but because I was raised so heavily with that cultural influence, I realized that my inner monologue is a Jamaican woman.”

“The pressure of trying to survive is so heavy in China.”

“The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.”

“My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.”