Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want. - Brandon Stanton

Who’s influenced you the most in your life?” “My principal, Ms. Lopez.” “How has she influenced you?” “When we get in trouble, she doesn’t suspend us. She calls us to her office and explains to us how society was built down around us. And she tells us that each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built. And one time she made every student stand up, one at a time, and she told each one of us that we matter.

That's the problem with growing up in a white world. You think you can do anything that white people can do.

I'm having a hard time trusting in The Process.'
'What process?'
'The process that says if I do my part, everything will turn out right.