I say, “You a kind girl,” and she nod, repeat it back to me. But before I can do another one, she get up and chase that poor dog around the yard and laugh and...

Miss Taylor says kids that are colored can’t go to my school cause they’re not smart enough.” I come round the counter then. Lift her chin up and smooth back her funny-looking hair. “You think...

There is so much you don’t know about a person. I wonder if I could’ve made her days a little bit easier, if I’d tried. If I’d treated her a little nicer. Wasn’t that the...