Jennifer

“before i could release
the weight of my sadness
and pain, i first had
to honor its existence.”
― yung pueblo, Inward

“Life will do its best to get at you. Sneak up from behind and shatter you, into tiny unrecognizable pieces. You have to be ready to pick everything up pragmatically. Keep your head down and make it work.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“We are the memories we don't remember, which live in us, which we feel, which make us sing and dance and pray the way we do, feelings from memories that flare and bloom unexpectedly in our lives like blood through a blanket from a wound made by a bullet fired by a man shooting us in the back for our hair, for our heads, for a bounty, or just to get rid of us.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“Empathy is fossilized in our bones.”
― Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Even As We Breathe