Atiya Irvin-mitchell

“Ignoring what's uncomfortable is not the same thing as staying safe,”
― Lily Meade, The Hex Girls: A Rogue Thorn

“Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“You plant two sunflower seeds in a pot of rich soil. You water them with the same can, at the same time, with the same portions. You rotate the pot daily so they get equal access to the sunlight. Yet on some early, pertinent day, perhaps there is a cloud across the sky, and the plant on the left doesn’t get quite the strength of light that the one on the right does. Or there is a worm in the soil in one quadrant of the pot who eats through more of these roots here than those ones there. Who can say. Sisters are not flowers. And parents can never, from the first day, give the same water and light and soil to one girl that they gave to her sister. Sisters grow, if they grow together at all, in adjacent sorrow.”
― Gregory Maguire, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

“Anyone who’s worked at a nonprofit knows you do ten jobs and there’s still more to do.”
― Tina Knowles, Matriarch: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir