“Maybe I would have resisted the urge to be respectable.” Write about a time when you wanted to rebel against respectability.

“I’m left wondering if we are all just patchworks of the stories we’ve been told.” Who makes up your patchwork of stories? Why?

“I fight white supremacy by raising my daughter to take up space and make her voice heard in a world that wants to quiet her.” How do you...

“But I identified with the groups or individuals—human beings—that I was not supposed to identify with. I didn’t understand that there...

“I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn,...

“One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world’s...

“They made us into a race. We made ourselves into a people.” How has your racial group become a united people (in your specific community)?

“Justice is not a natural part of the lifecycle of the United States, nor is it a product of evolution; it is always the outcome of...