Author: Amanda Jane

Amanda Jane is a 30-year-old writer, social media lover and pop-culture obsessed adult*. While she isn't working on her novel, she enjoys watching television shows, wondering about the YouTube business model for vloggers, movies and reading any books she can get her hands on. She might be made up of 20% coffee and 80% sarcasm. *An adult when her parents are looking.

oceansoul11:

#Repost from @Shell & Pine by @swiftsave_app
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This quote is from the ‘Parts Unknown’ episode that Tony filmed in my hometown of Houston. That man from the north east could have easily come to Texas and scoffed, as so many other people do, about guns and Republicans and all the other stereotypes people love to spit about Texas and Texans. But he didn’t. He came and he explored, he shone a spotlight on the diversity of Texas and HTown in particular. He sat down with families and people from all walks of life and he listened to them talk about how much they love this state and their neighbors. I watched that episode and I cried, because that is the Texas I know and that is the Texas I wish other people knew. So many communities lost an ally today – an ally of diversity, of the underdog, of immigrants. He told their stories. 💔