tolerating always turns into resentment. at first, you call it patience, then love. but what it really is, is self abandonment. every time you swallow a boundary, excuse a pattern or silence your discomfort, something inside you keeps score. eventually, the bill comes due.
Norway beat Israel 5-0 in the World Cup qualifiers and then donated the prize money they won to Gaza and that’s why everyone should be rooting for them.
If 3 Black people took a White man on a boat expedition and didn’t return with him the president would be making a speech right now.
Rest in power Nolan Wells
I didn’t grow up having role models. I grew up having people I didn’t want to be like and seeing situations I’d never want to be in. and that was enough.
If you never shopped at Jimmy Jazz, Conway, Pathmark, Modells, or never had a regents test in high school, or a green metro card, you can’t claim you’re from NYC