Cristel

“Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed.”
― Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World

“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.