I Dominique Apol on @ApollonTweets It's taken me 45 trips around the sun, but for the first time in my life I know what it feels like to have a "band aid" in my own skin tone. You can barely even spot it in the first image. For real I'm holding back tears.
Clint Smith l've said this before, but one of the only reasons I'm a writer is because I had a teacher in grade who looked at my poem about clouds & said "you can be a writer when you grow up." It stayed forever. Teachers, don't underestimate what your words can do for your students