I don't know what the word mommy means / Youniqiue Symone -- Beauty is more than skin deep / Danielle Wilson -- Controlling my temper / Christopher A. Bogle -- The answer was me / Eliott Castro -- Color me different / Jamal K. Greene -- I was a beauty school sucker / Tonya Leslie -- My weight is no burden / Charlene Johnson -- Losing my friends to weed / Jamel A. Salter -- Out, without a doubt / Craig J. Jaffe -- I'm Black, he's Puerto Rican... so what? / Artiqua S. Steed -- All talk and no action / Elizabeth Thompson -- She's my sister (not foster) / Tamara Ballard -- Bonding through cooking / Aurora Breville -- A love too strong / Tamecka Crawford -- Learning to forgive / Christopher A. Bogle -- It takes work to flirt / Danny Gong -- My struggle with weed / Craig J. Jaffe -- College can be hell / Tamecka Crawford -- Poetry brought out the performer in me / Shaniqua Sockwell -- How I graduated / Angi Baptiste -- How writing helps me / Terry-Ann Da Costa -- Why I live in a fantasy world / Cassandra Thadal -- Walking out the anger / Tamara Ballard -- My hair is blue - but I'm not a freak! / Lenny Jones -- How to survive shopping with mom / Chris Kanarick -- A mother to my mother's children / Charlene Johnson -- No one spoke up for Irma / Ana Angelica Pines -- I'm a seventeen-year-old therapist / Quantwilla L. Johnson -- Soldier girl / Max Moran -- How I made peace with the past / Paula Byrd.