Aprendí a poner a la audiencia primero pensando en lo que ellos quieren leer, y no en lo que yo quiero escribir.

I learned to put the audience first by thinking about what they wanted or needed to read about, not what I wanted to write.

Nothing could give me a satisfying, one-word answer to the “what are you” question.

That’s because being a bridge student is nothing to be ashamed of; if there is shame, it lies only with the institution itself.

The inalienable fact of life being Black, as well as being an immigrant is building a home out of the unfamiliar.

At one point, it seemed as though almost every person above the age of forty was either a diabetic or a prediabetic.

When I talk about the religion I feel culturally affiliated with, I hear an eerie silence.

I drifted away from Kiskeya and with it, part of myself.

So I give up. I would turn off the lights, bury myself under layers of blankets, and soak my pillow with tears till I fall asleep.

“Como nicaragüense, tengo el derecho a la protección del estado y la defensa de mis derechos”