“I think that’s one way this place has really changed me—to stop compartmentalizing people into different categories or different groups and just thinking of them as their own self.”
“I think the best analogy I can give is the difference between infatuation and love. When you’re young, you’re infatuated with life. It’s this big adventure, and it’s always going to work out in the end. It’s like the movies. And then you grow up, and you realize that life isn’t like the movies. But that’s okay because it’s more real—like being really in love with life.”
“In high school, and even first year, I was really trying to figure out what other people wanted me to be. Now, I put my energy where I want to put my energy.”
“There was so much to explore, for me, especially—coming from Alabama, from public school, from a very homogenous background. It was a time when I could come here and just live.”
