Each day a new world opens itself up to you. And all the worlds you are gather into one world called You.

- Jacqueline Woodson

How quickly we forget where we come from. So remind me, remind me.

- Elizabeth Acevedo

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

-Walt Whitman

If we really listen and look at each other as we were meant to be seen--then we would fall in love. We would marvel at how beautifully we were made.

- Daniel Nayeri

Either I’m nobody, or I’m a nation.

- Derek Walcott

What this makes me think about / what it means in connection to my own life:

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

- Toni Morrison