The best stories fuck us up and force us to put ourselves back together in a new configuration.

It’s easy to be enraged by these kind of tweets and statuses but it’s really just lazy journalism that obscures the real issues.

“I’ve always been like, ‘Love myself? How the heck am I supposed to do that?’ I believe, now, I’m starting to understand a little bit of what it means.”

To be a rebel is to stand defiantly and purposefully in the face of something. It’s not defiance for its own sake: it’s a war cry into the darkness.

“We never ask young people what they are willing to sacrifice to make the world better and that’s one of the biggest problems in this country.”

“They know nothing about black people…and they’re going to give me notes about what a 13 year-old boy and girl are doing in Red Hook? Fuck no!”