Stability comes from insides, let's fix this...

There are moments we lose touch with what's really important. When our worlds are flipped upside-down, permutated in ways we never even considered, we must recognize we are the only ones who can set it right again. We must not wait around for others to fix things for us, to put the pieces back together, we have to do it for ourselves.

And so a beautiful quote by poet Lucille Clifton:

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties, in my definitions, I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me. Stability comes from inside, not outside.

- Lucille Clifton

UCSD students response to the "Compton Cook-out" controversy