I Like What I Like: Thoughts of A Lonely, Black, Lesbian Child (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781986484374)

Never fitting into anyone's mold of what a black, female, same gender loving, activist should be, Ochi has lived and existed outside the lines. She has been and outsider within her own communities because she does not conform to anyone type. She was born an activist, like she was born black, female and a writer. As a child few saw her talent and desire but those that did, nurtured and encouraged it. Unfortunately, those people came along later in life. In her early years she was labeled square peg, book worm, know it all, idiot, liar, storyteller, unrealistic, artist and griot. She came to embrace all her labels and saw them as a form of resistance. She wanted to write, she was going to write, she would not stop writing. She wrote in secret, she wrote in code, she wrote on napkins, used paper bags, old envelopes and tattered clothing. She saved every little note possible where she had written. She wrote about each and every experience knowing that they shaped her life. She refused to be invisible, she refused to be silent and now she is sharing her world, her insight and her experiences. She is recalling stories lived, stories told to her and stories seen. She will leave you with much to digest and discuss. As they say in culinary arts, bon appetite.