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Michelle's Story

Michelle Trokey


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Michelle & Kasey


Quotes

My skin color, my size, & my appearance were variables - things that were judged according to my current self image, the aesthetic values of the time, the places I was in, and the people I met. My studies, later my writing, the respect of people who saw me as an indvidual person they cared about, these were the criteria for my self-worth that I would concentrate on my adult life.
~ Judith Ortiz Cofer~


I will not let myself be tempted to remain in the sealed garden of blind faith; I'll stay long enough to rest myself from the exhausting enterprise of leading the examined life. ~ Judith Ortiz Cofer~


Looking in the Mirror

He says he loves her
He says he's changing
And he can keep her warm
She sits there like America
Suffering through slow reform
But she'll never get back the time
And the years sneak by
One by one
She is still playing the martyr
And I am still praying
For a revolution.
~ Ani DiFranco ~