“i knew read sonia sancher. nikki giovanni. audre lorde. before i ever even heard the name…”

“my english is broken. on purpose. you have to try harder to understand me. breaking this…”

“'no' might make them angry, but it will make you free. - if no one has ever told you, your…”

“remember. you were a writer before you ever put word to paper. just because you were not…”