Emily

“But home isn’t where you land; home is where you launch. You can’t pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Children can’t learn antiracism if they don’t have the practice of observing, naming, and discussing race in their tool kit.”
― Jennifer Harvey, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America

“I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go. I also realize that I was a long way, still, from finding my voice.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming