You Gotta Be You: How to Embrace This Messy Life and Step Into Who You Really Are Binding:Hardcover As children

As children

Prose to the People is a beautiful tribute to these vital pillars of the Black community

She does so with sharp wit and radical transparency

for all of us

You Gotta Be You: How to Embrace This Messy Life and Step Into Who You Really Are Binding:Hardcover As childrenYOU ARE ENOUGH EXACTLY AS YOU ARE. From the time we're born, a litany of do's and don'ts are placed on us by our families, our communities, and society. We're required to fit into boxes based on our race, gender, sexuality, and other parts of our identities, being told by others how we should behave, who we should date, or what we should be interested in. For so many of us, those boxes begin to feel like shackles when we realize they don't fit our