“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”

“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”

“She always said she’d already lost one child to gangs and she was not losing another. We were surrounded by gangs and kids getting in trouble blaming it on the area they lived in, but Memo and I are living proof of what my mom always said to us. You are who you choose to be. You’re only a victim of your environment if you allow yourself to be.”