The world does not really show much ease to people born into poverty. This book is about a little girl's journey from being the "little black baby" to achieving the best of her dreams. This is a story about the author sustaining through the feelings of dejection and misery to enjoying the feelings of completion and wholesomeness. This is a story of a young girl who endured the feelings of loneliness, working through her life to make something good out of it.
Sharecropping, or slavery rejuvenated, the grandchildren had been going through a lot in life. Despite the generations of discrimination and racism, the young girl saw in the world what most people in her shoes would not. Though life showed her times when tears would stream down her eyes, this story is about someone who held her chin high and her shoulders wide. Regardless of what all wicked things there were in her life, the absence of a father, and the hate of a mother, she found peace in the diversity of things.
Standing all alone, she faced life head-on, along with all it had to offer to her – abandonment, fear, prejudice, and everything that would break most of us down. Yet, did she break down? Perhaps. But did she give up? Not really.
After all, isn't that what life is all about, not giving up despite all the storms and dark clouds?
