I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.

I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.