If you were to ask me a decade ago if I loved being a black woman, you probably wouldn’t have gotten a clear answer from me.

I was five years old when I first learned how to conceal my identity as an Afghan Muslim girl. It was a week before kindergarten started....

What do we do when a circuit shorts? Reset it, refresh the hard drive, turn it on and off again or if all fails, you start anew.

I want people to see that there are avenues for them to feel themselves and people will want to hear what they want to say.

Sometimes we’re not ready and we’ll bolt out of the room, but what if you stay? What if it works out? What if you find people who get you?

Yet, whether a negative word aims to serve us or cut us down, if it becomes a part of our identity, it is damaging.

Remember that in order to reach our goals we must access rational thought. We must have common sense.

You’ll never know how much fun they’ve held you back from until you finally let them go.

Can you remember the last time your inner child came out to play? What about the last time you were able to dance and not care about...

More often than not we tend to underestimate how much our environment can hold us down.

I know there are many times I have fallen off my growth, but when I come back to it, I realize I’m a lot farther than I used to be.

Now, I am able to understand that growth is a process, sometimes stop and go, but a process nonetheless.

The truth is, when it comes to “renewal,” I’m a work in progress, and the progress barely started this year.

You can advocate for yourself and for others. It doesn’t matter how small the act is.

Just as a photographer sets a scene in a photo, we set the scene in our lives. We choose what we focus on.