Do you think you're a good person? I ask another time. Do you feel like a good person?

Really, it's like my mom said, I have to look back and find something I love and cherish and hold onto that and make it something positive instead of the negative stuff.

It's crazy. Sometimes you don't even realize that you're, like, using the past to keep you down and back and stuff. It just happens and you don't realize it until you really sit down and think. I've definitely used the past to hold me back and put myself down, stress myself out. I guess I feel like a bad person in that type of way, where I've regretted my actions.

*And I know I'm not a bad person, it's just like, one bad moment really brought me down. But I'll bounce back. I'll bounce back." — B.

— Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones (Page 26)