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Shortly after the adoption agency called her on Christmas Eve 1996 with news that a baby girl had just arrived, Brennetta had a quick dose of reality. Imani-Brenae, 17 days old when Brennetta adopted her, woke up screaming every two hours all night long. "I thought, Oh, my God, it's just me," she says. "What was I thinking? That I could raise a baby alone...
...vision," he says, explaining how he wants to bring back artistry to hip-hop and soul. "This album is the second step to that vision." The birth of his son Michael, 3, inspired him. (D'Angelo, who is unmarried, also has a three-month-old daughter Imani...
...teenage mother, desperate for a handhold in the long climb through a childhood in the ghetto names her child Imani or "Faith." Though the simple significance of the appellation may initially seem shallow and even trite, it's this almost innocent, simple connection that gives Imani All Mine its poignancy. The account of child mothering child becomes a story of epic determination which grabs readers and takes them on a ride through a world about which they know little, if anything...
...narrates her own story with a colorful, spirited voice that refuses to falter or halt regardless of all that she faces: the ever-increasing violence and crime in her inner-city Buffalo neighborhood, the blatant drug-dealing of her next-door neighbor, the fact that her child, Imani, is both daughter and granddaughter of single mothers...
Perhaps it's the soft, unexpected shock of every sequential tragedy presented in Imani; perhaps it's the rather unprecedented portrayal of innocent joy in teenage motherhood; or perhaps it is just the accepting, enduring clarity and strength of the main character, and the renewal of faith in the human spirit-whatever the case, Porter has uplifted a typically unheralded heroine and established herself as capable of writing with power and grace in a context unbraved by many other authors...