All my life, I’ve been too Brown for some and too white for others. The brown-skinned girl with an extensive vocabulary, goals, and dreams, the definition of white. It’s always been red, white, and blue, never brown. I’m American. It was the wings that would allow me to show the world how a brown girl, born of immigrant parents succeeds in America.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 15, 2021 17:03 UTC