You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

What I said was I’ll miss you what I meant to say was I love you what I wanted to say was that I meant what I said and it’s funny how all those things I could have said flooded my head after we said goodbye and I should have told you I’d be willing to hold you until my flesh crumbles into bone because I’m willing to die alone but god knows I don’t want to live that way.

I was never meant to be this thing.

My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.

Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.