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“My mother was my first country. The first place I ever lived.”
“I came here to mourn. When it was time for the rite of passage from girlhood to womanhood, I came here to dance. We worship here; we wed here. The ground where you sit, our pews. The trees around you, our steeples. You are standing in our church.”
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Grief is its own kind of intimacy, a bond of sorts between you and the one you lost.
I chose this man, chose this time. In a world where so many of us don’t get to choose, I cherish that.
Kimba says I find bias and misogyny in houseplants. She’s not wrong, but come on. That shit’s everywhere.
“I’ll continue loving this country on one hand and exposing the government’s kleptocratic practices on the other.”
“The harder I have to work for something, the harder I take it.”
