Jason Reynolds

Imagine how difficult it was to travel then.

And then also, I just think they were creative people.

You better get out here and see what's happening.

It's good for your imagination.

It's good for your creativity.

it's good to know that maybe the thumb of oppression might not be as heavy everywhere else, right?

And that that's a possibility, right?

That maybe there is freedom at some point.

If I could be free here, maybe someday I could be free there.

Just at the FBI and the CIA and the State Department and all, just think about all the people who's had files opened up on them for having an imagination.

These people are doing nothing other than imagining a better version of the life in which they've been, the life that has been foisted upon them.

You know what I mean?

And trying their best to imagine a space where people who are experiencing similar things might be free and they're being punished or at least being sort of investigated due to said imagination.

It's interesting to think about.

This is what I'm talking about.

Yolande would never.

I'm proud of my parents.

if I'm me and they're my parents, they're the people who raised me, I think I would have been sad and it would have been anxiety inducing.

But I also know that it would have been a waste of my time, a futile endeavor to try to convince them otherwise.

If them your parents, then you go ahead and you sign up for what it is.