Jasmine

“dear ghost i made i was raised with a healthy fear of the dark. i turned the light bright, but you just kept being born, kept coming for me, kept being so dark, i got sca … i was doing my job.”
― Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

“We were free. We were unlimited. We didn’t yet know or understand race and class and all the intersections between them, so we were not yet black, at least not on the inside. Our psyches were still free from the troubles of the world.”
― Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited

“don’t fret, we don’t die. they can’t kill the boy on your shirt again.”
― Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

“It is quite relaxing being humble, because it means you can stop feeling pressured to have a view about everything, and stop feeling you must be ready to defend your views all the time.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think