“it is always the right time for our strength to be seen. no matter what happens, we should never forget solidarity, which lightly bears our sorrows and joys like a lifeboat, carrying us smoothly and safely towards the next port.”

“the worst racism i ever experienced was being forgotten.”

“Symmetrical Mindsets That I Noted between Our Most and Least Privileged 1%"

“push, pull, i’m the boss, do this, because i said so,
your fault, clean it up, i don’t care, i’m tired of you now...”

"the sweet thing about breaking my own heart’s that it hasn't made me up on love and never will."

“the past houses my present body's consciousness, halting it as the river of time rushes and crashes by me."

"If caviar were a caveat to chaos, perhaps I wouldn’t have had to choose between a home and my autonomy at 19 years old."

“Despite the distance now between my mother and I and our mothers before us, we all share this particular sorrow in a near identical manner.”

"My nervous system doesn’t understand the difference between a dream, a memory, and the present.”

“When I think of how I got to where I am, I have to think of all of the mothers that came before me.”

“She used me as a lightbulb of personality and achievement to make life brighter—shinier.”

“I was too rigid on the soft thing that is me.”