“I’m from Yazoo city, Mississippi. There was this witch that died there who cursed the place. They didn’t bury her properly and there was all this weird stuff that happened, 2 floods, and a real bad fire. Then they put chains on her grave and the bad stuff stopped. All I can tell you is this bad stuff really happens. My grandfather helped form hospitals there. Back then black people were dying from tonsillitis and other stupid stuff because white people wouldn’t let them in the hospital. He and my uncles also formed a credit union in the community. I come from a family like that. My daddy got killed when I was 8 months old. My uncles and them treated my mom so bad after that she was like, ‘To hell with this crap’ and she moved out here.“

“I was here in the Western Addition in the 50’s when it was fabulous. The OC projects, those skyscrapers…they gone now. I think the way stuff is changing is just progression. It’s something better. This has totally changed, San Francisco is nothing like it used to be and it’s not going to be the same again.”