“I want to be the person you come to when things are too much. I want to be the quiet place you go to when everywhere else is too loud and all you have the energy to be is just…you.”
Source: Bite Me! - You Know I Like It
“Leaving [home] was walking away from the side of a grave. The person wasn't there, only the body under the soil. Bodies of people we love die, we leave them. Something of them remains in us, something we have to keep like we would a fossil, a story no one remembers, a Logbook. I knew that a place is just a body, no longer alive without the people that ensoul it, but it still hurt to go.”
Source: All the Water in the World
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“Germantown helped shape my work and practice as a visual storyteller and image maker. But if there is a word I could use to describe what Germantown means to me, I would choose the word home. It was home then, and will always continue to be home for me.”
Source: Compositions of Black Joy: A Visual Chronicle of the Philadelphia Juneteenth Festival
“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.”
Source: Quote Me Everyday
“I felt at home even though I knew he wasn’t home.”
“Dressed that way, he looked almost like any other New Yorker. It was only he nervous shifting of his eyes that hinted at discomfort, but not with the city, nor with being on land. With his own skin. No matter where we went, he never felt at home.
I recognized that feeling. I'd inherited it.”
Source: The Girl from Everywhere
“As I walked the streets of my birth, there was no sense of terroir, of groundedness. I didn't belong here more than I belonged anywhere else.”
Source: The Girl from Everywhere
“He’s here,” I told Darren. “I’ve got him.”
“So that’s what he meant by home,” Darren said [...].”
Source: Tell Me It's Real
“Whether they are part of home or home is part of them is not a question children are prepared to answer.”
Source: So Long, See You Tomorrow