The Ministry of Time

by Kaliane Bradley

I’d taken my time correcting him because I wasn’t sure what I meant to myself. “Mixed-race” people don’t technically belong to either of their heritage spaces, but they don’t necessarily belong in a “mixed-race” space either—there’s too much flex in the term. I used to think every mixed-race person was an island, composed of a population of one.

But to make an identity out of a set of habits does not strike me as wise or even very useful.”

Everything that has ever been could have been prevented, and none of it was. The only thing you can mend is the future.

The truth is, it won’t get better if you keep making the same mistakes. It can get better, but you must allow yourself to imagine a world in which you are better.