Jasmine

“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

“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

“My mother says you have to be grateful for the people you knew in childhood since the people you meet as an adult “is already ruined and no good, but you always ’member da innocence of peoples you knew as kids.”
― Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited

“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