"Women in general hold it together -- especially for this community. The women, especially the older black women, are very, very strong. They've seen it all."
-urban professional

"If you don't have a good image of yourself, that is as crippling as any other need around. As mothers and grandmothers, we maintain that for our children. It hasn't been easy, but we have and we will."
-community matriarch

"When I look at myself I see a young woman who is looked up to all the time. Someone who doesn't know all the answers to everything but wants to know everything. Someone with a lot of love to give -- a caring person who does anything that's needed for other people."
- student researcher for When I Look Out My Window
"The women of the neighborhood have created many organizations which serve our community and others across the nation. This month volunteers from church organizations throughout Tioga joined together to send food and clothing to needy families..."
-The Sunday Bulletin, 1953

"My grandmother adopted my brother and me, and we've been happy ever since. I admire my grandmother for taking us in her home and loving us like she does."
-neighborhood youth

"Stop giving up! Stop looking for the easy way out! Everything in life doesn't just come to you. You have to work for it. Your mothers and your grandmothers worked hard to give you the opportunities you have today. Do you best always! Stop giving up!
-community matriarch
the women of the Nicetown-Tioga Town Watch
When I Look Out My Window is part of Memory Mine, a community story-telling initiative of COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
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