You don’t need anybody to keep you down because you got your own little inner fascist right there telling you what you can and cannot do. That’s how you let them win.
This is who I am. This is who my ancestors were. I’m not going to let them take that away from me.
Losing people is one thing. Not being allowed to grieve for them, it’s, uh… well, that’s another.
One thing I realized about my people is we got a different sense of time. These may be dark years, but we’ll survive. We always do. You’ve just got to find something to hold on to.
I don’t plan on dying, Frank, but you can’t live your life in fear.