Jasmine

“Which is another important thing to remember about friendship: You’re crazy if you think you get to make all the rules. What mattered was that we just kept showing up, in closeness, in commitment, in compromise, and even in fatigue. For me, it’s all about showing up.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

“When the people with power in a society see a portion of the populace as inferior and undeserving, their definition of “the public” becomes conditional. It’s often unconscious, but their perception of the Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they’ll tear apart the web that supports everyone, including them. Public goods, in other words, are only for the public we perceive to be good.”
― Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

“We were a mob a gang ghetto a pack of wolves animals thugs hoodlums men They were kids having fun home loved supported protected full of potential boys”
― Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

“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