“"At 11:00 PM, the police came to my mother's house to eject her… they locked her up for being a loser." - My Mother Smokes Crack Rocks”

“She came naturally by her confused and groundless fears, for her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.”

“My mother smokes that crack like a cigar / She had a good time at it / She jacks my brother for dope money / She does this by threatening him with a Smith and Wesson”

“A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.”

“Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”

“Sweet little rock and roller, sweet little rock and roller
Her daddy don’t have to scold her, her mother can’t hardly hold her
She never gets any older, sweet little rock and roller”

“She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”

“My mother and her little brown jug
It held her milk
And now it holds our memories…”

“Go away, image of my living mother, full of life, as I saw her in France for the last time. Go away! My mother's ghost.”

“But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.
-Ying Ying”