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“her virtues, graced with external gifts, do breed love’s settled passion in my heart.” -shakespeare  

I felt like y’all couldn’t hear me. So, I graced you. My words live on this page to amplify my voice, thoughts, and opinions. Stay for a while. Or don’t.

when audre lorde said, “my fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition”

i felt that.

multidimensional, resilient, and unique. i am a black woman. i am an avid reader. i am a minnesota native and proud of that. i am a daughter, a sister, a friend, a student, and an athlete. that is last on purpose. i am worthy to be heard (you are too). i am a passionate j cole fan,

and a mac and cheese fiend.

i am…