saintsandperdition:

They are still children although they are built like women, they are still boys although they act like men… If we do not stop to tell them, snatch them up like they used to do when we used to act up down the block. If we don’t keep those traditions alive, it’s our fault.

- Jill Scott, The Thickness

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