What Was Life Like as a Kid?

"i was the kind of kid who loved a long time. I was a neighborhood kid, and neighborhood kids do neighborhood things," she says. "My mother saved all your clothes, all your old sneakers, everything you ever wrote." Her fear of one of her children living a life that might have been unstable caused a rift in their family. But when it came time for me to fly the coop, wy, i'm going to go and be a writer,. Yua writes about growing up in the 19 fifties and sixtes as ta black woman in america.