A successful life is one lived on my own terms, not one where I end every day more tired than the last. And if everyone else around me is happy but I… - Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Racism is not a byproduct as much as it's the foundational stock in the American soup.

We are entrusting thousands of strangers with our innermost thoughts and feelings, and then we're expecting them to be careful with those feelings. As much as we want it to be, the Internet is not a safe space. It is not a place where we can lay our burdens down and heal. Why? Because there are too many people there who do not give an ounce of a shit about our well-being. They do not deserve our rawness, and they will not treat it with care.

I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not part of who i am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.