Books by Kwanna Bradley

Surviving to see another day was always the mission. Before she was able to hit puberty, Kwanna found herself making adult decisions. The pressure from the streets was on. While the pot of dysfunction was broiling at home. There was nothing else left for her to do but pack her bags and take that walk down the boulevard of broken dreams. After adopting the streets as her family she went on to become a notorious gang member who was well known all across the city. In the streets it was an accomplishment to be a female who was respected. Remaining loyal to the brotherhood, putting in the work to show and prove herself, Kwanna and the children she came up with were literally products of chaos, genocide, and self-destruction. They were a generation that was fearless, had no conscious, no direction and held no punches. The only thing they had was each other and that was enough. After all the countless funerals and multiple trips to jail. Kwanna begins to reap all the seeds she had sown which had grasped her attention to change. Most children grow up preparing for which prominent university they plan to attend. That was not the case for Kwanna and majority of her peers. This is memoir sheds light on the children who were raised in urban communities in the early 90's. Children who were preyed upon, exploited and led astray from becoming the best versions of themselves.

Growing up on the fierce streets of Chicago's southeast side and staying alive was no easy task for an around-the-way girl. With broken dreams lying in the gutter, survival became her only goal to be accomplished. Adopting a life of crime, gang affiliation, addiction, and prostitution at an early age only plunged Kwanna deeper into the abyss of despair and failure. One day she woke up at the age of forty to realize what a mess she had made with her life. After a lifetime of being tangled in a self-made web of self-affliction, self-destruction and self-sabotage, she finally cut herself free from the bondage that has held her bound to unfortunate circumstances and unnecessary tribulations, escaping the inevitable wrath of incarceration, insanity, and death. She was determined to save herself and rewrite her story so that she might teach others who are struggling with their very own selves. She learned how to self-heal herself through spirituality. After discovering that her ego played a major role in her decision-making process, which led to a series of destructive episodes and negative behavior patterns, she came to a conclusion that the only way she would be truly free was to kill her ego.