Sarah Caney

Passionate school leader. Hoarder of books. Opinions are my own.

[Sarah Caney @MissCaney]

Bittersweet: so proud, but they will be so missed! # PAL2017 #phxfam #crossthestage @BethAndersonPCA @phoenixcharter @GrizzyBearLove

[Sarah Caney @MissCaney]

@monaewrites Always. Sometimes I cry 😳

[Sarah Caney @MissCaney]

@postcardsfrmv Junot Diaz
Jhumpa Lahiri
Danielle Evans
Laura van den Berg
Sandra Cisneros
Kristiana Kahakauwila

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

My freshman year of college, after never having earned less than a B my entire life, I nearly flunked out, earning 3 Fs, a B and C. I was depressed and stopped going to class. I was Black and working class at an elite white school. I missed home. I missed family. I was going through something that had nothing to do with my academic abilities, work ethic or ambition. Human beings struggle. This rugged individualism culture, this scarcity mentality, this willingness to write off struggling people as unworthy is toxic and hurts all of us. If an empathetic educator, Dean Flint-Hamilton, hadn’t given me a shot to redeem myself, my life would have been very different. She took a chance on me because she saw me as a whole human being. I was determined not to betray her trust in me. We can do better, y’all, with our young people — with all people. We truly can.

[Sarah Caney @MissCaney]

@profgabrielle Men We Reaped, by @jesmimi. She writes with so much clarity and visceral pain, AND you can literally feel the love off the page. (As with everything she writes.)

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

One parent could get my poetry banned from classrooms. And yet one country can't ban assault rifles from massacring them.

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

i would like to take my children out to the mall without the chance of them having their faces blown off by a high powered rifle, dan.

[Siobhan @mshavisham]

Tonight, a mom joined the grieving parents FB group I belong to.

Her son was killed 22 mass shootings ago.

He was killed in a mass shooting last week.

[KB @kiridominique]

Im moving into my soft era. I only want kind and gentle people in my life. I want to be loved and surrounded by people that only want the best for me. I want beautiful connections that inspire me to be my best version. To know 100% the ppl around me got me like I got them ✨

[Sarah Caney @MissCaney]

@deray How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by @KieseLaymon and anything by @NifMuhammad

[Chelsea Watson @chelsea_wats]

THREAD: As #Omicron surges and our systems strain, I wanted to share my #COVID19 experience in NYC last month. It was actually a hopeful window into what a society where we look out for one another and a government that is set up to truly care for us could look like.

[Bae Guevara @Kaimandante]

Every damn time

[Ryan Ken @Ryan_Ken_Acts]

There are white folks alive today who participated in lynchings or know friends & relatives who did. Many were able to go about normal lives. Some serve on juries & some are judges. I imagine they find sympathy with violent racists because they feel some degree of kinship.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Nobody is surprised, but that doesn’t mean outrage isn’t appropriate.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

It’s actually simple: If you can feel pride in things you didn’t personally take part in, then you can feel shame in things you didn’t personally take part in. Some of you are motivated to make this hard, but it’s only hard bc you want the glory of our history but not the burden.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

The desire for so many Americans to be free of collective shame, collective atonement and collective responsibility for the shameful legacy of centuries of slavery, racism, apartheid & terroristic violence visited upon fellow citizens is the sign of an immature & selfish culture.

[Sarah Caney @MissCaney]

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[Sarah Caney @MissCaney]

Opinion | Roxane Gay: "Pass Over" on Broadway, and the Death of My Beloved Brother

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[my book is better than my tweets @MichellCClark]

it’s a beautiful day to choose rest over a false sense of urgency