At Camp Diva, my non profit organization, we have these types of conversations all the time as a way to help girls of African descent prepare for their passage into womanhood.

I am a cultural omnivore, one whose daily commute is made possible by attachment to an iPod an iPod that contains Wagner and Mozart, pop diva Christina Aguilera, country singer Josh Turner, gangsta rap artist Kirk Franklin, concerti, symphonies and more and more.

At Camp Diva, Angela Patton works to help girls and fathers stay connected and in each others' lives. But what about girls whose fathers can't be there because they're in jail? Patton tells the story of a very special father daughter dance. em em

Like a Morandi like the little bottles composing them like a still life.

The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

It's a chattel mortgage, just like furniture, just like a car.

She went like a grandmother and came back like a tiger.

I don't like being treated like a child.

Tom doesn't like being treated like a child.

But it's kind of like flipping a six or a nine. Like a six, if you flip it over it looks like a nine.

And this noise is like a shhhhhhhhhhhhh, like that.

Or, not so coincidentally, like a tube like this.

It's like a Noah's Ark. It's like an archive.

And she said, No, it's not like a dream. It's like a movie.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

Create a shopping center, a swimming place that is more like a museum than like entertainment.

Too excited, went out like stink, died like a pig.

I like to think of bathrooms like a tropical rainforest.

Time flies like an arrow fruit flies like a banana.

And then we can visualize this data like a network, like a social network.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Like a lot.

Like a man.

The precision which we need to discover a Jupiter like planet around a sun like star is something like 28.4 meters per second.

Do they do it by interlocking? That's kind of a like a Velcro like thing.

And I said, You mean, like a cave? And she said, Yeah, like a cave.

Can't you apply a definition, like for example, a Supreme Court like definition of life?

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth eaten.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth eaten.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

She taught girls what a healthy vagina looked like, and what a mutilated vagina looked like.

I think she said it looks like a gun. A lot of people don't like guns.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.

He maketh them also to skip like a calf Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

He maketh them also to skip like a calf Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

But if you're like me, my humanity is more like a window.