Surround yourself with other beautiful brown and black and indigenous and morena and Chicana, native, Indian, mixed race, Asian, gringa, boriqua babes.
Let them uplift you.
Rage against the motherfucking machine.
Question everything anyone ever says to you or forces down your throat or makes you write a hundred times on the blackboard.
Question every man that opens his mouth and spews out a law over your body and spirit.
Question every single thing until you find the answer in a daydream.
Don’t question yourself unless you hurt someone else.
When you hurt someone else, sit down, and think, and think, and think, and then make it right.
Apologize when you fuck up.
Live forever.
Consult the ancestors while counting stars in the galaxy.
Hold wisdom under tongue until it’s absorbed into the bloodstream.
Do not be afraid.
Do not doubt yourself.
Do not hide
Be proud of your inhaler, your cane, your back brace, your acne.
Be proud of the things that the world uses to make you feel different.