This book of poetry was written to inspire readers everywhere. The poems speak to the Christians relationship to God and to our efforts to do what is right. The poetry challenges us to show practical love toward our spiritual brothers and sisters. Many of the poems go deep into the African-American Christian experience, acknowledging that only love, trust, and hope in God can heal the wounds of yesterday and today and reveal a brighter future for tomorrow.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

A Daddys Girl is a powerful, and at times, heartbreaking story of a young girl who struggles with the absence of a daddys love in her life. In A Daddys Girl, life began for baby girl amid rejection and domestic tumult. When she was just a few days old, her father, in a drug and alcohol haze, rejected her as his child and set into motion events that led to life without him. As the young girl grows, she has to come to terms with never having the love of her biological father, as well as eventually losing the love of her stepfather, the only dad she ever knew. Despite these and other challenges, the young girl flourishes in school and finds solace in reading books. Ultimately, she emerges as a contented, fulfilled young woman solely because of one simple truth.