Emily

“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

“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

“It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life—the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn