Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.

Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn't perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.