Ellie

“Who would dare admit a longing for a White nation so full of hate that it drove its citizens of color to madness, to death or to exile? How to confess even to one's ownself, that our eyes, historically customed to granite buildings, wide paved avenues, chromed cars, and brown, black, beige, pink, and white-skinned people, often ached for those familiar sights?”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“Driving toward something is better than driving away from something.”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

“I haven't figured out just yet
if it's brave or stupid
to live so boldly
but I'm going to keep
doing it anyway”
― McKayla Paige Arnold, grace + grit

“How strange it is
that you tried to run
to faraway places
yet landed in your destiny,
how strange it is
that you ran away
from the truth
for so long yet,
it found the way back
to you
- expect the unexpected”
― Jyoti Patel, ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS