“The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.” — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just something he did. To… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“Though we came from our native Hawaiian mother, Chad and I were perceived and therefore raised as black, which widely cast us… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“My grandmother and my two aunts were an exhibition in resilience and resourcefulness and black womanhood. They rarely talked about the unfairness… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" anything. We were fully… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image