“Maybe love wasn’t always loud and obvious. Maybe sometimes it crept up quietly, disguised as laughter and late-night talks and a friend who never let go.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“The Voting Sonnet
Why should you vote you ask,
Since it changes nothing!
And nothing will change,
By acting the indifferent weakling.
If you want things to change,
Support character not charisma.
Trash all your populist snobbery,
And it'll abolish all political miasma.
Politics is manipulation,
But it is so due to your gullibility.
Seek out the leader with backbone,
Only then there'll be hope for humanity.
But if you find not a leader of character,
Arise and be the one you seek here and there.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Our stars and stripes have a lot of stains on it, and it'll take centuries of determined accountability to clean them off.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Lady liberty is not just a statue, she is a reflection of the soul of America.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Why America Exists
When oppression became unbearable, America was born - when discrimination turned extreme, America was born - when rigidity became intolerable, America was born. America was born of an unbending desire for freedom - America was born of a drive for self-correction - America was born of an urge for progression.
Yes we did many mistakes in the process, even committed horrible atrocities - we drove people off their lands to build a new world for our children - and nothing that we can do today can mend those atrocities of yesterday, but what we can do is to make a promise to ourselves to never repeat those atrocities of our ancestors no more.
It's time we become the new Americans - Americans with more accountability than recklessness - Americans with more curiosity than rigidity - Americans with more acceptability than prejudice - Americans with more inclusivity than discrimination.
There is no our America and their America, there's only one America - the United States of America. You see, ours is not just the United States of America, ours is the United States of Assimilation. And we must practice this principle to the letter and spirit everyday of our lives.
For example, we of all people cannot in right mind deny shelter to those seeking refuge, especially when we are both sociologically and economically capable of doing so. Whoever comes to these shores of liberty, in the hope of life, freedom and happiness, automatically becomes an American, by measure of the same determination and will that made our founding fathers set foot on Plymouth Rock escaping British bigotry, snobbery and barbarism.
Our very country is founded by immigrants. America was built by refugees, and as such, if this land can't be a refuge for the subjugated and persecuted, then it is an insult on our very existence as the great land of the free and brave.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“What if an American citizen needs to disappear, for reasons that might never be revealed to you, and you are involved, even peripherally, in the plot? Are you willing to participate in a crime like that? Something they can hang over your head for the rest of your life?”
Source: Sabrina
“Americans are not by nature utopian but, rather, Americans are practical as Americans, as pragmatists, tend to work with that which is possible as opposed to trying to invent something that cannot exist.”
Source: Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism
“And as the struggle to pass healthcare legislation was also teaching me, the mere fact that Republicans had once supported a policy idea championed by one of their own did not mean they'd support THE SAME EXACT IDEA coming from a Democratic president.”
“I don't fathom the red and blue, You can't make a rainbow with two colors.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Beyond Red and Blue (The Sonnet)
I don't wanna rule no one,
Nor do I wanna prove them wrong.
I don't wanna convert no one,
Nor do I wanna sing the woke song.
My work is with the whole humanity,
No person must be left behind.
Either I'll take them all forward,
Or I'll perish while fixing the great divide.
I don't fathom the red and blue,
You can't make a rainbow with two colors.
If you are really kind and conscientious,
On its own bigotry disappears.
We must rise above all party politika,
Only then will we be the soul of America.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism