Sharing as I learn and grow
“I experienced so much trauma in my childhood that I couldn’t wait to become an adult so that I could make my own choices and enjoy my life, avoiding as many thorns as possible. And while I do enjoy adulthood far better than my childhood, one lesson that I’ve learned is that no season of life is without thorns; there will always thorns.”
“…I kept trying different strategies until I found the one that worked the best and I kept supporting him in the process.”
“We must stop expecting the vulture that is the United States to behave like a dove. No one is coming to save us. We must save ourselves. We must invest in ourselves, not as a trend but as a generational lifestyle. “
“We take food scraps and make feasts. We take tattered cloth and make beautiful tapestries. We tap into the creativity, ingenuity and intelligence that are part of our DNA. Our long history of excellence, perseverance, overcoming and being underestimated has always included educating our children.”
“Homeschooling is fertile ground for the seeds of curiosity, inquiry and problem solving to be nurtured and for our children to become the people God created them to be.”
“I offer Black people a different strategy: Don’t play their game. As difficult as it may be, choose to ignore that game and develop your own micro-strategy to advance Black people. Identify and keep working on your strategy.”
“Based on the way the neighborhood’s 22-year-old administrative resolution is written it is clear what types of residents and business owners are deemed worthy to live and own a business inside its gates and which are not. Piedmont’s desire to maintain a neighborhood of white, professional residents is baked into its laws.”
“Our students don’t have to have their identity minimized and their self-esteem marginalized to have a high-quality education but we must be willing to break up with the public school system to give it to them. We must be willing to prioritize our children’s education by collectively investing time, talents and money and by working together.”
“To describe my feelings as disappointment would be an understatement; what I feel and have felt for a long time is heartbreak. Not because I believed in the educational system but because I believed in the power of individual educators to disrupt the system and create conditions that benefitted Black children.”
“Imagine your Black child learning in an environment that was lovingly and carefully curated for them by you and other like-minded community members. Think of how your child will grow in conditions that were set up for him/her to succeed? “