Kara

“Writing in itself is radical resistance, a triumph - people can try to stop you from speaking your truth, but no one can take your words from you.”
― Eternity Martis, They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

“I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind”
― William Shakespeare

“...'I'm your mom. I know best.'

As I stared at her, waiting for an explanation, it became clear I wasn't going to get one. And that she in fact did not know best--for herself or for me. Grown-ups, who are supposed to protect their children, are limited by what "best" has felt like to them, based on the circumstances they grew up in and the privilege they did or did not have.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

“I like to think of all of my father's kids as seeds of the same wilted flower, scattered across this universe—not doomed by virtue of our breeding but, instead, surviving because we are uplifted by the forceful winds of our strong-willed mothers and the purest beams of sunshine from our rundown grandparents, who selflessly took on the burdens of parenthood again—whose labour is never done. They give up everything to make up for the man who gives nothing. They break themselves just to see us bloom.”
― Eternity Martis, They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up