“See me. Hear me. And trust me. Because all the books in the world can’t tell you what my body is feeling or what I’m going through.”

“Now I understand why a lot patients scaring to trust the doctors, to go to the hospital, to deliver a baby. They ask me: Can you come with me?”

“Don’t look at every Black person that comes in there like they’re a drug addict. I’m coming to you because I’m telling you: I’m hurting.”

“A lot of my appointments are with doctors I’ve known a long time. But if I’m referred to a different doctor, believe it or not, I pray before I go.”

“Patients don’t necessarily trust you because you gave them the right medication for their blood pressure or not. They trust you because you’re there to listen.”

“I do believe that if I were a white woman, my questions, my concerns, everything would have been taken more seriously. And the road to discovery would have been a shorter one.”

“I was rushed to the hospital, and I was there before a few other people, and they was white. And the receptionist kept saying, ‘The doctor will see you now.’ And I said, ‘Well, what about me?’”

“I know that as a white woman, when I enter a room, I am presenting as a white physician. What does that mean? How do I account for that?”

“Why should you think that you’re better than the person over there? You’re no better. You are the same.”

“At that moment, I thought: Just because I’m attractive, you think I’m dumb or something?”

“I think one of the biggest things that always feels the heaviest is that we all feel so disconnected.”

“It’s kind of an interesting story because my home for a very long time was prison.”

“I didn’t think that the day would come that I would see somebody who looked like me take office. It just seemed unimaginable, honestly.”

A conversation with three members of Everyday Boston’s Bridge Project about their experiences with police and prisons.

A conversation with three members of Everyday Boston’s Bridge Project about their experiences with school and the streets.

“It kind of showed me the strength in myself, completing the semester at home. It showed me that even though this is hard, and even though I'm first gen, and even though I'm going to a PWI, I can do it. “

In this historic moment, this is our tribute to Black graduates of the Boston Public Schools- and beyond- featuring life advice from their neighbors in the city.

“Being a part of these protests has honestly uplifted my soul in a way that I can’t even begin to explain.”