“as a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, i know they have fallen in love with my mind. having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. art may be the only space a woman can be whole without being seen.”Tagged: Writing, Being A Writer, Female Writer, My Favorites, Being a woman
“Be a scar. Do not be ashamed of living through something.”Tagged: Living, Living Creatively, Living Fully, Life, Empowering
“she asked ‘you are in love, what does love look like’ to which i replied ‘like everything i’ve ever lost come back to me.”Tagged: Love, Known You All My Life, real love, love quotes, Love Poems
“i knew you before i met you. i’ve known you my whole life.”Tagged: Love, Known You All My Life, real love, love quotes, Love Poems
“Water clings to my wrists. It has been my fragrance since birth.”Tagged: First Lines, Literature, first lines of books
“I don’t pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.”Tagged: poem, Poetry, Writers, Life
“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince…”Tagged: Love, Being In Love, Looking For Love
“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have…”Tagged: Pain, Love, Mistakes, Making Mistakes, hurt
“if the ocean can calm itself so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air.”Tagged: We Are Nature, Nature Is Us, The Natural Flow, Ebb and Flow, meditation
“i knew read sonia sancher. nikki giovanni. audre lorde. before i ever even heard the name charles bukowski. finally, a proper education.”Tagged: POC writers, Women of Color Writers, A Proper Education, Dismantling Privilege, Marginalized Writers
“my english is broken. on purpose. you have to try harder to understand me. breaking this language you so love is my pleasure. in your arrogance you presume that i want your skinny language. that my mouth is building a room for it in the back of my throat. it is not. --i have seven different words…”Tagged: Language, POC Poetry, Women of Color Writers, Linguistic Complexity, Your Skinny Language
“'no' might make them angry, but it will make you free. - if no one has ever told you, your freedom is more important than their anger”Tagged: boundaries, Saying No, Stop People-Pleasing, POC Poetry, Freedom
“stay is a sensitive word. we wear who stayed and who left in our skin forever.”Tagged: People Leave, Past Memories, Poetic, Stay, sad and beautiful
“she asked ‘you are in love what does love look like’ to which i replied 'like everything i’ve ever lost come back to me’”Tagged: Love, Curiosity, Feelings
“Both. I want to stay. I want to leave. I am three oceans away from my soul.”Tagged: finding a place, Finding Yourself, Belongingness, belonging to this world, Love
“I believe that everyone in the world has one poem that is their soulmate.”Tagged: Literate, soulmate, Fate, Beautiful Quotes
“i have always been the woman of my dreams.”Tagged: admiration, Another version of you, Self Appreciation