"At twelve, I had left the only family, friends, and home I knew behind in Haiti for the last time."
"Two weeks before his death, my dad and I had one of those conversations where we both knew it would be the last."
"When I was in the second grade, I was not a 'good' kid."
"I didn’t really know what life outside of that white, suburban, and wealthy lifestyle was like until I attended public school and met Chanley."
"So many memories…..Yes, COVID has a human face."
"Some of you won't stay home. But please don't forget where you came from. I never did."
"During Thanksgiving and Christmas, my mother would make dinner for way more people than our family had, because we just never knew who might show up, from where they came, or what they had been through..."
