It was like going to hell and back, ... All I have is the clothes on my back. And I been sleeping in them for three days.

To me, ... it just seems like black people are marked. We have so many troubles and problems.

[Instead, he pushed the kids out a window. They scooted to the roof, some pulling themselves up with an extension cord.] The rain was pouring down so hard, ... And we had a 3-month-old and a 2-year-old.

I thought we were going to die out there, ... We had to sleep on the ground. Use the bathroom in front of each other. Laying on that ground, I just couldn't take it. I felt like Job.