Long Conversations

Hot days are here again: humidity and high temps return to Pittsburgh.

Long conversations are the best part of life, being able to talk with others about all you feel and have experienced. The stories we share are important--and some stores haven't yet been told--and they need to be told. [The words of a great man.] It's great, being able to tell stories to people.

Long walks... Sayo and I take long walks, have long conversations. We talk to each other, able to trust our thoughts. Yet, it's inspiring, knowing that there are people who really care about what you have to say--people who are able to guide you.

Here in Pittsburgh, I think I've found a couple people who I can trust, able to learn from and have these long conversations with. One of them is Amado... A fellow Slug, he, too, was mentored by Sayo. It amazes me how good people generally associate themselves with other good people. I appreciated our talk, and he inspired me to know that I am able to be here again... Harvard is a possibility. Martha was also able to communicate this to me. It amazes me that Carnegie Mellon is as accepting of people of color as I had hoped for. However, the challenges associated with coming to institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton--Carnegie Mellon, too--are overwhelming.

I look forward to the day when people of color are afforded the same opportunities as all other people. I dream that admissions or acceptance will not be dictated by past performance, but rather from a future potential to succeed--not just academically.

I hope that people will be able to succeed socially, able to contribute back to society as society has given to them, for the people who are afforded these opportunities are more likely to contribute back to society.