Carmen Aub Instagram – “Dear Colin, trust your power. Even when you don’t see it, believe it. Because you’re going to need it. From your earliest days, rejection will follow you and it’ll be there through every step of your journey. It’ll come from people who love you… and people who don’t think you belong. It’ll even come from a girl or two. But rejection is not failure – it’s a calibrator… it can help you learn who you are and what you want. And there’s something you want more than anything, you want to be a quarterback, your path will sometimes be rough, but trust your power, when you face rejection and feel like you wanna quit, trust your power and when you you see that you are barely anyones first choice, trust your power, I promise you when they say you’re not their first choice, you will show them that you were the right choice… but while you focus on becoming a quarterback, something else will be happening, something extraordinary, something that you can feel but you don’t have the words or wisdom to articulate. You will learn to love who you are and not give a damn that who you are makes some people uncomfortable. You will know no matter how much people try to control you that they can not break you, and you will learn to find beauty in places where the world tells you there is none, and is because of this things, you will know when people try to tell you when and where you can be a quarterback it doesn’t matter because you see your are more than a quarterback, much more. Trust your power, love your blackness, you will know who you are”- Colin in black and white