And So I Roar: A Novel

Somehow, I feel deflated, emptied of the adrenaline rush from the last twelve hours. It’s a feeling of purposelessness; it’s how I imagine a tennis ball wandering in a football field at midnight would feel.

Who tells you that girls are supposed to be a servant? Look at yourself, you are so full of power! So great! We need to understand the power we are having, and if our world is not a letting us climb high, if they are removing the ladder for us to climb, let we women bend our backs on top of each other and make a ladder for ourselves, by ourselves!”

“Our land is bleeding, the world is bleeding, and it is the girls that are suffering the most.”

“My mothers and sisters—” She turns toward the women, her voice rising, a roar thundering through the gathering. “Are you not tired of carrying the heavy load of suffering? Don’t you want to be free? For your girls to grow up and become somebody important? Don’t you want them to go to school or learn a work and buy you cars and wig and makeup paint

ON FAITH Faith is the knowing that somehow, tomorrow will be better than today. Even if today doesn’t make much sense.

ON LEARNING As long as you are alive, there will always be things to learn because learning is like food. Once of it is never enough for the rest of your life. So, keep feeding your hunger for learning and keep humble your heart to learn the wisdom of those who learned before you. Even if you are more old than they are.

didn’t born childrens, but that don’t mean I am not a mother. A mother gives a wise word and food and love. A mother is takes care of people. I been doing all that since I been around twenty-three years of old.”

ON FORGIVENESS Forgiveness is the door to that tiny passage of your heart where healing lives. And the key to open the door of it is to say yes to a sorry you may not ever get.

ON CHANGE Rich people say the world is a small place. But that don’t mean you can trek all of it. Meaning what? You can’t possible change the world all by yourself. The only thing you can change all by yourself is yourself, and the tiny corner of the world you find yourself. Start with that. Small by small and corner by corner, soon your goodness w