38 quotes found
“i am a woman and a poem. visceral”
“i am a woman and a poem. – visceral”
“healingbeginsthe momentyouwant it to”
“there is no healthier drug than creativity.”
“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. B...”
“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
“Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving.”
“younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you”
“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.”
“never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them,you are invisible.”
“creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. ive carried the shame of being a creative since i came to the planet...”
“No might make them angry but it will make you free.”
“the worstthing that ever happenedtothe worldwasthe white man coming across gun powder. the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy”
“Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire.”
“if the ocean can calm itself, so can you.we are both salt water mixed with air.”
“i lost a whole continent.a whole continent from my memory.unlike all other hyphenated americans my hyphen is made of blood.when africa says hellomy mouth is a heartbreakbecause i have nothing in my...”
“we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.”
“as a childthere was eitherbooksorpain.i chose books.-how i became a writer”
“my mother gave me islam.my father gave me the god of absence.and here i am.a religion made of myself.”
“he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with being a man. being a man had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. weightless”
“it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.”
“the thing you are mostafraid to writewrite that-- advice to young writers”
