Overcoming Grief Truths

“Strength isn't the absence of tears. Strength is crying when you need to and getting back up anyway.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Unsolved is not the same as forgotten.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Pain that never gets to cry finds another way out.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Grief doesn't run on anybody's schedule.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Forgiveness isn't the absence of grief. It's not the absence of anger.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Grief doesn't ask how someone died before it moves into your chest.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Let the tears come instead of letting the anger decide.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Breaking the cycle starts with one person deciding their grief will not become another family's grief.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Where I come from, every corner has a name, and every name has a funeral.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“It's okay to cry. It's okay to heal. And it's okay to keep moving.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Holding it in isn't going to make you strong. It's going to make you heavy.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Grief from being left behind doesn't get a hospital. It gets a funeral, and then it gets silence.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Anger is grief wearing armor.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“The goal of grief is to carry that love into a life that keeps moving, not to stop loving the person you lost.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“That's what a trigger takes: not one day, but every day that would have come after it.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Grief doesn't only change how you feel. It changes who you let close.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“A mother's peace is worth more than their silence.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Every time I tell my children 'I love you,' I'm saying the words I never heard.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“I'm too old to die young now. So I'm going to do the thing my father never got the chance to do. I'm going to grow old.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“Say their names. Let the world know they were here.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name

“It’s not your fault. The people we lose to suicide are fighting something most of us can’t see from the outside, no matter how close we are.” — Melvin Williams Sr., Every Corner Has a Name