Grace

“No matter how much time I spend here I can't escape the whiteness of my skin, the way I stand out no matter what I do. But it's more than my skin. It's my privilege.”
― Jessica Posner, Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

“Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman.”
― Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

“I thought, if we could just come together as a community, even if that just meant playing soccer together, that could be the beginning of something good. Coming together as a community, as a people, creates more power than exists when individuals are fighting each other for scraps. Soccer has always brought people together. Soccer was where I would begin.”
― Kennedy Odede, Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

“There are two way of escaping your poverty,' he offers quietly. 'One, you can use drugs, get drunk - escape. Or you can escape into the world of books; that can be your refuge.”
― Kennedy Odede, Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum